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BY 
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Author of “The Roman Catholic Bible and the Roman 
Catholic Church,’ “The Bible and Christian 
Science,” etc. 


INTRODUCTION BY 
DAVID JAMES BURRELL, D.D. 


Minister, Marble Collegiate Church, New York 





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FOREWORD 


LL men are naturally and intuitively reli- 
gious, having been created in the likeness 
_ of God. 

Sin alienates from God. Religion is seeking 
after a lost God, lost through sin. ‘‘We came forth 
from God” (to quote from Augustine) “and we are 
homesick until we return to Him.” 

But religion is not enough; the “homeward way” 
must end at the Father’s house. Christianity 
claims to be the only true religion because it finds 
God. It finds Him unveiled in the person of his 
only begotten Son who said, “He that hath seen me 
hath seen the Father; I and my Father are one.” 

How do we know that Christ is God? By the 
print of the nails in His hands. Everybody insists 
that “God is love”: but an insensate God who 
leaves the creatures of His hand adrift on a shore- 
less and uncharted sea of trouble without making 
bare His arm to help them is no God for thinking 
men. Christ is “the Arm of the Lord made bare” 
for salvation unto all who are willing to be saved 
through Him. 

This book, written by a Gentile layman, a de- 
voted Christian “mighty in the Scriptures,” is an 

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earnest, loving endeavour to present Christ, the 
long-looked-for Messiah and only Saviour, to the 
ancient people of God. It is based upon the 
prophecies of the Old Testament concerning 
Christ, beginning with the “seed of woman” who 
was to come in fulness of time to “bruise the ser- 
pent’s head” and deliver the world from the 
shame and power and penalty of sin. 

It is a proverb among Christians that the Jews 
are the most inaccessible of all peoples to the 
Gospel. Yet there is an open-air pulpit in New 
York (on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty- 
Ninth Street) where, daily, throngs of Jews as- 
semble at noon to hear a simple, loving presenta- 
tion of Christ, where the printed Scriptures are 
distributed and gladly received; and there is reason 
to believe that many have been convinced. 

“To the Law and the testimony.” Their own 
prophets must convince them. Jesus said: “If they 
believe not Moses and the prophets, neither would 
they believe though one rose from the dead.” 

The author makes no railing accusation against 
the Jews. The spirit of his argument is commend- 
able every way. It is like that of Christ himself 
who mourned over the rejection of his overtures of 
mercy with tears: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how 
often I would have gathered you, as a hen doth 
gather her brood under her wings, and ye would 
not.” 


FOREWORD - 


The time is coming, however, when the Chosen 
People are to acknowledge Christ as their Messiah; 
at his appearing every knee shall bow before him 
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus is the 
Christ of God. 

Meanwhile, “how beautiful upon the mountains 
are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that 
saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!” 

Davip JAMES BURRELL. 


Marble Collegiate Church, 
New York, N.Y. 


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AUTHOR’S PREFACE 


HIS book is written with the hope that 
among the Jews, God’s Chosen People, 
there will be those who will in the read- 

ing, accept Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ whom 
their forefathers rejected, as their Messiah. 

The writer is not giving a detailed account of 
the Jewish tenets contained in Jewish literature, 
but only, as he believes, sufficient thereof to serve 
the hope he has expressed. 

Holy Scripture, of the First Covenant and of the 
New Covenant with God’s people, is quoted from 
the Old and New Testaments. 

With such a purpose in mind, may not the 
writer have reason to believe that his book will be 
received by all who read it, as not intended to an- 
tagonise souls, but rather to win them to Christ? 


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CONTENTS 


ADAM 


. AFTER Many Days ; 
. DIVISIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE 
. Hope Must BE IN CHRIST . 


LAW AND GRACE . 


. JACOB’s PROPHECY CONCERNING 


SHILOH 


. CONCLUSION . 


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I 
ADAM 


IN THE BEGINNING 


ND God said, Let us make man in our image, 

A after our likeness; and let them have dominion 

over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of 

the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, 

and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the 
earth. 

So God created man in his own image, in the image of 
God created he him; male and female created he 
PRCUE ie ai%6 

And God saw everything that he had made, and, be- 
hold, it was very good. And the evening and the 
morning were the sixth day.—GENESIS I: 26, 27, 31. 


Thus man was made “very good” but did not 
remain so. 


And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; 
and there he put the man whom he had formed. 

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of 
every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou 
shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest 
thereof thou shalt surely die. 

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man 
should be alone; I will make him an help meet for 
him. 

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And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, 
made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.— 
GENESIS 2: 8, 16, 17, 18, 22. 


Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of 
the field which the Lord God had made. And he 
said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall 
not eat of every tree of the garden? 

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not 
SUPOLY WE ee 

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for 
food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a 
tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the 
fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her 
husband with her; and he did eat... . 

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the gar- 
den of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was 
taken. 

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east 
of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming 
sword which turned every way, to keep the way of 
the tree of life-——GENESIS 3: 1, 4, 6, 23, 24. 


Thus it came that man fell from good and be- 
came evil. 


Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man 
upright; but they have sought out many inventions. 
—ECCLESIASTES 7: 20. 


And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in 
the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts 
of his heart was only evil continually. 

And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the 
earth, and tt grieved him at his heart... . 

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 


ADAM 15 


These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just 
man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked 
with God. 

And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and 
VOPHELR as 

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come 
before me; for the earth is filled with violence 
through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with 
the earth. ... 

But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou 
shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy 
wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee... . 

Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded 
him, so did he.—GENESIs 6: 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 18, 22. 


As man was created in the image of God, he 
was created “Heart, Soul and Mind.” The “us” 
and “our” of the original Being, was Father, Son 
and Holy Ghost: 


And God said, Let us make man in our image, after 
our likeness: and let them have dominion over the 
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over 
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every 
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.— 
GENESIS I: 26. 


ABRAM—-ABRAHAM—THE FATHER OF US ALL 


From Noah’s time a new generation of men 
came upon the earth: 


These are the generations of Shem. Shem was an hun- 
dred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after 
the flood. <.. . 

Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat 
Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.— 
GENESIS II: I0, 27. 


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And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, 
saying, 

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou 
shalt be a father of many nations. 

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but 
thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many 
nations have I-made thee... . 

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee 
and thy seed after thee in their generations for an 
everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to 
thy seed after thee. 

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, 
the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of 
Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be 
bheir Gade! .<\. 

And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, 
thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarak shall 
her name be. 

And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: 
yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of 
nations ; kings of people shall be of her... . 

And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son 
indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I 
will establish my covenant with him for an everlast- 
ing covenant, and with his seed after him.—GENESIS 
T7: 3, 4, 5) 7; 8, 15; 16, IQ. 


Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children oft 
promise.—GALATIANS 4: 28. 


And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that 
thing which I do; 

Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and 
mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall 
be blessed in him? 

For I know him, that he will command his children, 


ADAM 17 


and his household after him, and they shall keep the 
way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that 
the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he. 
hath spoken of him——GENESIS 18: 17, 18, 19. 


Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. 
He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, 
And to thy seed, which ts Christ. 

And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed 
before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hun- 
dred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it 
should make the promise of none effect. ... 

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that 
the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given 
to them that believe—GALATIANS 3: 16, 17, 22. 


Hearken to me, ye that follow, after righteousness, ye 
that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are 
hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are 
digged. 

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that 
bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, 
and increased him.—ISAIAH 51: I, 2. 


For the promise, that he should be the heir of the 
world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through 
the law, but through the righteousness of faith... . 

Therefore it 1s of faith, that it might be by grace; to 
the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; 
not to that only which is of the law, but to that also 
which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father 
of us all—RoMANS 4: 13, 16. 


JESUS CHRIST 


Abraham is the Father of the Hebrew People. 
Much more and in a perfect sense is Jesus an 


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Everlasting Father, so asserted by Moses and by 
Isaiah, the prophet, if their testimony will be be- 
lieved by the Jews. Hear the witnesses: 


And Moses spake in the ears of the congregation of 
Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.— 
DEUTERONOMY 31: 30. 


Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O 
earth, the words of my mouth... . 

Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and un- 
wise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? 
hath he not made thee, and established thee?— 
DEUTERONOMY 32: 1, 6. 


When in Genesis, first chapter, and twenty-sixth 
verse God said: ‘‘Let ws make man in our image 
after our likeness,” Jesus Christ, His only begotten 
Son, was included in the us and the our, because 
He was in the beginning with God. 


And God said, Let us make man in our image, after 
our likeness: and let them have dominion over the 
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over 
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every 
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth— 
GENESIS I: 26. 


As to Jesus Christ, it is written: 


The same was in the beginning with God. 
All things were made by him; and without him was not 
anything made that was made.—JOHN I: 2, 3. 


When the time had come, we find the Son of God 
teaching the man He created. 


ADAM 19 


Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them 
in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of 
the Holy Ghost—MATTHEW 28: 19. 


Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a 
question, tempting him, and saying, 

Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 

Jesus said unio him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with 
all thy mind. 

This is the first and great commandment. 

And the second is like unio it, Thou shalt love thy 
neighbour as thyself —MATTHEW 22: 35, 36, 37, 38, 


39: 


Man created in the image of God the Father, 
and possessing Fatherhood, implied that God in 
His person was, and is, a Father. Jesus Christ is 
His only begotten Son. 

The name “Lord God” is not mentioned in 
Genesis until after man was created. Thereafter 
His name is often mentioned as “Lord God:” 


In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with 
God, and the word was God. 

The same was in the beginning with God. 

All things were made by him; and without him was not 
anything made that was made... . 

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only 
begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth— 
JOPNGT IT 4:2) 73554. 


God is a Spirit, and He is also the Father. 


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And the earth was without form, and void; and dark- 
ness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit 
of God moved upon the face of the waters -——GENESIS 
Lue. 


Christ, who was in the beginning, is One with 
God. 


Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and 
vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudi- 
ments of the world, and not after Christ. 

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead 
bodily —COoLOSSIANS 2: 8, 9. 


These names of Jesus Christ are given in Scrip- 
ture by the prophet Isaiah, among them is The 
everlasting Father: 


For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and 
the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his 
name Shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of 
Peace. 

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall 
be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his 
kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judg- 
ment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. 
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this— 
IsAIAH 9: 6, 7. 


This prophecy was made by Isaiah about 300 
years after the time of King David’s reign. The 
Jews correctly insist that their God is One. Scrip- 
ture confirms it as follows: 


ADAM 21 


He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call 
him Lord, saying, ... 

If David then cali him Lord, how is he his son?— 
MATTHEW 22: 43, 45. 


The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, 
until I make thine enemies thy footstool—PsaLtm 
110: I, 


And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast 
said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none 
other but he: 

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the 
understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the 
strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is 
more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. 

And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he 
said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom 
of God. And no man after that durst ask him any 
question —MARK 12: 32, 33, 34. 


When the work of Jesus Christ, who is now in 
Heaven at the right hand of God, shall be finished, 
then God shall be all in all: 


Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up 
the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he 
shall have put down all rule and all authority and 
power. ... 

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then 
shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that 
put all things under him, that God may be ali in all. 
—-I CoRINTHIANS 15: 24, 28. 


Jesus Christ shall have that glory which He had 
with the Father before the world was. We pre- 


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sent the evidence of it from both the Old and 
New Testaments: 


I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the 
work which thou gavest me to do. 

And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own 
self with the glory which I had with thee before the 
world was. ... 

And now I am no more in the world, but these are in 
the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep 
through thine own name those whom thou hast given 
me, that they may be one, as we are... . 

And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in 
the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in 
themselves —JOHN 17: 4, 5, II, 13. 


And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was 
preached unto you: 

Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitu- 
tion of all things, which God hath spoken by the 
mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. 

For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shali 
the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, 
like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things what- 
soever he shall say unto you.—ACTS 3: 20, 21, 22. 


The Lord thy God will raise up unio thee a Prophet 
from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto 
me; unto him ye shall hearken—DEUTERONOMY 
Lao ath ae 


What Prophet in all the world’s history resem- 
bles (being like unto) Moses, as does Jesus 
Christ? 


ADAM 23 


Well may Israel rejoice in the prayer of Jesus 
that He might be glorified with the glory of the 
Father which He had with the Father before the 
world was. 

For He is there now bringing Israel to Him- 
self, through faith in His name. Here is the tes- 
timony of the martyr Stephen: 


But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stead~ 
fastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and 
Jesus standing on the right hand of God. 

And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the 
Son of man standing on the right hand of God... . 

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying 
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 

And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, 
lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had 
said this, he fell asleep——Acts 7: 55, 56, 59, 60. 


THE MESSIAH—A SAVIOUR 


Where can we find such love as Christ has? 
How shall man escape if so great salvation is 
neglected? 


For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and 
every transgression and disobedience received a just 
recompence of reward; 

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; 
which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, 
and was confirmed unio us by them that heard him. 
—HEBREWS 2: 2, 3. 


O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, ... how often would I have 
gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather 


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her brood under her wings, and ye would not!— 
LUKE 13: 34. 


But Israel is to return to his God through faith 
in Jesus Christ, who was crucified for the world. 


And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise 
thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger 
is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. 

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be 
afraid; for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my 
song; he also is become my salvation. 

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the' 
wells of salvation. 

And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call 
upon his name, declare his doings among the people, 
make mention that his name is exalted. 

Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: 
this is known in all the earth. 

Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great 
is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee —IsataH 


12: I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 


And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There 
shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn 
away ungodliness from Jacob. 

For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take 
away their sins. 

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your 
sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved 
for the fathers’ sakes. 

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. 
—ROMANS II: 26, 27, 28, 29. 


For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be- 
gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 
not perish, but have everlasting life-——JOHN 3: 16. 


ADAM 25 


Jesus Christ, by all of His names given by the 
Father and contained in Scripture, is the Messiah 
of Scripture. The only begotten of the Father 
and a Stone of Stumbling and a Rock of Offence 
to both houses of Israel. 


Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your 
fear, and let him be your dread. 

And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of 
stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the 
houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the in- 
habitants of Jerusalem. 

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be 
broken, and be snared, and be taken. 

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 

And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from 
the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 

Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given 
me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the 
Lord of Hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.— 
ISAIAH 8:13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. 


Does not Christ speak here in the Spirit: “I 
and the children whom the Lord hath given me’’? 


And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, 
Behold I and the children which God hath given me. 
—HEBREWS 2: 13. 


ONE GOD 


Is there not One God in Three Persons—Father, 
Son and Holy Ghost,—as well as the one universe 
we know, with unnumbered stars within it? 


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Does not the electric light have united in one 
form, light, heat and power, manifest or latent? 
If this is so in nature, why may it not be true in 
nature’s Creator? 

Hebrew children, we learn, have been taught 
by loving parents that the Talmud is to be closely 
associated with the Law which God gave to Moses, 
and which was written in the Book of the Law. 

When we compare portions of the Talmud with 
the written law of God by Moses, we feel com- 
pelled to take note of the great difference and to 
feel thankful for the sake of a people God has 
chosen, that our Saviour, Jesus Christ, referred to 
the traditions of the Jews as He did. 


For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold 
the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: 
and many other such like things ye do. 

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the com- 
mandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradi- 
tion, 

Making the word of God of none effect through your 
tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such 
like things do ye —MARK 7: 8, 9, 13. 


Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the 
elders? for they wash not thei hands when they eat 
bread. 

But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also 
transgress the commandment of God by your tradi- 
tion? 

But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines 
the commandments of men.—MATTHEW 15: 2, 3, 9. 


ADAM ee 


Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with 
corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain 
conversation received by tradition from your fathers ; 

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb 
without blemish and without spot... . 

Who verily was foreordained before the foundation 
of the world, but was manifest in these last times for 
you.—I PETER 1: 18, 19, 20. 


Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and 
vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudi- 
ments of the world, and not after Christ —Co.os- 
SIANS 2: 8. 


How is it to be explained that Nebuchadnezzar 
saw in the fiery furnace a fourth man who looked 
like the Son of God, unless it was that the like- 
ness of the Son of God had been revealed to him 
from heaven, or by men who had made the like- 
ness of the Son of God to become known to men 
through their knowledge of the Scripture prophe- 
sies or revelations from heaven otherwise made to 
them? It was not a Son of God the King saw, 
but was the form of a fourth man walking in the 
midst of the fire, and the form of the man was 
like the Son of God. 

So these children of Israel were delivered. 


He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking 
in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and 
the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. 

Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the 
God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath 
sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted 


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in him, and have changed the king’s word, and 
yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor 
worship any god, except their own God.”—DANIEL 
Be 25, eu. 


For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy 
Saviour; I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and 
Seba for thee. ~ 

I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, 
your King.—ISAIAH 43: 3, 15. 

And he said, The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and 
my deliverer. 

For who is God, save the Lord? and who 1s a rock, 
save our God?—II SAMUEL 22: 2, 32. 

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon 
this rock I will build my church; and the gates 
of hell shall not prevail against it—MAaATTHEW 
16: 18. 


HIS OWN RECEIVE HIM NOT 


The apostle Paul writes: ‘For the love of Christ 
constraineth us.” God is love. This love of God 
in Christ will surely constrain His chosen people. 
Has the terrible persecution which has befallen the 
chosen people been of God’s choosing? Surely 
not! The choice was made by God’s chosen 


people. 
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus 


judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead.— 
II CORINTHIANS 5: 14. 


Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus 
which is called Christ? They all say unto nim, Let 
him be crucified. 


ADAM 20 


And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? 
But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be 
crucified, 

When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that 
rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed 
his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent 
of the blood of this just person; see ye to it. 

Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be 
on us, and on our children—MATTHEW 27: 22, 23, 


Dana ke. 


The One who created Adam also so loved his 
chosen people, that he purchased them after man 
transferred his allegiance to Satan in the Garden 
of Eden. 

Is it not true that “Emmanuel” is ‘God with 
us”? 


For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and 
the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his 
name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of 
Peace. 

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall 
be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his 
kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judg- 
ment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. 
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.— 
ISAIAH 9: 6, 7. 


Jesus Christ said that His disciples should be his 
witnesses. 


Then opened he their understanding, that they might 
understand the scriptures. 


30 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it 
behoved Christ, and to rise from the dead the third 
day: 

And that repentance and remission of sins should be 
preached in his name among all nations, beginning 
at Jerusalem. 

And ye are witnesses of these things—LUKE 24: 45, 


46, 47, 48. 
Here we have the witnessing of St. John: 


In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with 
God, and the Word was God. 

The same was in the beginning with God... . 

He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 

But as many as received him, to them he gave power 
to become the sons of God, even to them that believe 
on his name. 

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the 
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 
(and we beheld his glory, and the glory as of the 
only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 
—JOHN I: I, 2, II, 12, 13, 14. 


The first Adam, our ancestor, a son of God (not 
the only begotten Son of God, the second Adam) 
talked with God and knew of God as His Creator, 
but not so closely as to know Him as His Father 
in Heaven. 

Adam was turned out of Eden, that he might, if 
he would, come to the Father, through the Son, by 
His cross. 

Israel and all the world whom God loved must 
come that way if they will come: 


ADAM at 


Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm 
of the Lord revealed? ... 

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned 
every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid 
on him the iniquity of us ali—IsAIAH 53:1, 6. 


Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, 
that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom 
ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even 
by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 

This is the stone which was set at nought of you 
builders, which is become the head of the corner. 

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is 
none other name under heaven given among men, 
whereby we must be saved.—ACTS 4: 10, II, 12. 


For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 
not perish, but have everlasting life—JOHN 3: 16. 


THERE WILL BE LAST DAYS 


It would seem impossible that Israel would now 
rejoice in the spirit that once rejected Him, al- 
though they still reject Him. Yet we are deeply 
impressed with the expression from the Bible as to 
a generation which may refer to part of Abraham’s 
descendants in the last days: 


But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall 
be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, 
And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that 

are in heaven shall be shaken. 
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in 
the clouds with great power and glory. 


32 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather 
together his elect from the four winds, from the 
uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of 
heaven. 

Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch 
is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that 
summer 1s near: 

So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things 
come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors. 

Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not 
pass, till all these things be done. 

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my word shall 
not pass away. 

But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, 
not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, 
but the Father. 

Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when 
the time 1s —MARK 13: 24-33. 


A SIGN GIVEN TO THE HOUSE OF DAVID 


And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a 
small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary 
my God also? 


EMMANUEL—GOD WITH US—IS THE MESSIAH 


Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Be- 
hold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall 
call his name Immanuel.—IsAIAH 7: 13, 14. 


Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring 
forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, 
which being interpreted is, God with us—MATTHEW 
jee kos 


ADAM 33 


And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only 
begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth— 
JOHN I: 14. 


Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, 
that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have 
crucified, both Lord and Christ. 

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their 
heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the 
apostles, Men and brethren what shall we do? 

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized 
every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the 
remission of sins, and ye Shall receive the gift of the 
Holy Ghost. 

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and 
to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord 
our God shall call. 

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, 
saying, Save yourselves from this untoward genera- 
tion.— ACTS 2: 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. 


Adam was a son of God by creation, but there is 
a God-man, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of 
God. 


I wyll declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, 
Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine 
inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for 

thy possession—PSsa_M 2: 7, 8. 


For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be- 
gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 
not perish, but have everlasting life—JoHN 3: 16. 


34 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


Had God created man a being possessing knowl- 
edge of good and evil and in that respect as like the 
Godhead, man would not be, as he is, capable of 
partaking of Christ through faith. So when he par- 
took of the fruit of the tree he was turned out of 
the Garden. 

In Schechter’s ‘Studies in Judaism’? we read on 
page 152: “It is true that we do not find in the 
Scripture such words as: ‘You are commanded 
to believe in the existence of God.’” But that 
Schechter is mistaken the following Scripture 
shows: 


And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into 
the wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went forth, 
Jehoshaphat siood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and 
ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your 
God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, 
so Shall ye prosper—I1 CHRONICLES 20: 20. 


And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? 
And he said, A rod. 

And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it 
on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses 
fled from before tt. 

And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, 
and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, 
and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: 

That they may believe that the Lord God of their 
fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and 
the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee— 
EXODUS*A? 2, 35:4, 5- 


And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee 
in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I 


ADAM . 35 


speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And 
Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord.— 
EXODUS 19: 9. 


And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people 
provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe 
me, for all the signs which I have shewed among 
them?—-NUMBERS 14: II. 


God, the Redeemer, demanded belief in Himself. 
There can arise no God after Him who was not 
Himself God in the beginning. The Messiah of 
God has come in Jesus Christ, the Redeemer. Here 
the Scripture is given that declares it: 


GOD’S WITNESSES 


Ve are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant 
whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe 
me, and understand that I am he: before me there 
was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 

I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no 
Saviour. 

I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, 
when there was no strange god among you: therefore 
ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God. 

Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none 
that I can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and 
who shall let 1t? 

Thus saith the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of 
Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and 
have brought down all their nobles, and the Chal- 
deans, whose cry is in the ships. 

I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, 
your King.—ISAIAH 43: IO-I5. 


36 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


God, the Father, is a spiritual being, a spiritual 
personage, having a personality who speaks, who 
walks, who moves upon the waters, who sees, who 
loves, who hates, who is a being, a person, became 
flesh and man, was created in His image, and Jesus 
Christ was begotten in the express image of His 
person. | 


And the earth was without form, and void; and dark- 
ness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit 
of God moved upon the face of the waters. 

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. — 
GENESIS I: 2, 3. 


Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express 
image of his person, and upholding all things by the 
word of his power, when he had by himself purged 
our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty 
on high—HEBREWS I: 3. 


And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man 
speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into 
the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, 
a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle. ... 

And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I 
will give thee rest... . 

And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and 
thou shalt stand upon a rock: 

And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, 
that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will 
cover thee with my hand while I pass by: 

And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my 
back parts: but my face shali not be seen-——-Exopus 
ZEriTT SLA Wed Ese Duo 


2 


ADAM 37 


This was the only begotten Son of God who thus 
spake unto Moses, For no man shall see God the 
Father and live: Moses saw the face of Him whose 
glory was with the Father before the world was and 
lived. 


And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own 
self with the glory which I had with thee before the 
world was. 

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, 
be with me where I am; that they may behold my 
glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me 
before the foundation of the world——JoHN 17: 5, 24. 


The heavens declare the glory of God the Father, 
but his face man hath not seen, save the God man, 
Christ Jesus, unto whom is given His power and 
Godhead. 


The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firma- 
nent sheweth his handywork. 

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night 
sheweth knowledge. 

There is no speech nor language, where their voice ts 
not heard.—PSALM 19: I, 2, 3. 


And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man 
with him until the breaking of the day... . 

And Jacob called the name of the place Pentel: for 1 
have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 
—GENESIS 32: 24, 30. 


He is the only begotten Son of the Father, whom 
Jacob wrestled with at Bethel. Man created in the 


38 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


image of the Deity must have some resemblance 
to Him, and as the Word was God and was made 
flesh, we bear a form (a body) like Jesus Christ, in 
some respects,—the Word made flesh. 


And God went up from him in the place where he talked 
with him. i 

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked 
with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a 
drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. 

And Jacob called the name of the place where God 
spake with him, Beth-el—GENESIS 35: 13, 14, 15. 


Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he 
wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him 
in Beth-el, and there he spake with us; 

Even the Lord Gad of hosts; the Lord is his memorial. 

Therejore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judg- 
ment, and wait on thy God continually.—HosrEa 
TAs (Ay iGe 


I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the 
pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow. unto me: now 
arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto 
the land of thy kindred.—GENESIS 31: 13. 


When He comes again to receive us, we shall be 
like him. 


Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up 
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord 
in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.— 
I THESSALONIANS 4: I7. 


Jesus witnesses to His Deity before the High 
Priest: 


ADAM 39 


But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again 
the high priest asked him and said unto him, Ari 
thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? 

And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man 
sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in 
the clouds of heavenn—MArk 14: 61, 62. 


JACOB’S PROPHECY OF SHILOH 


And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather your- 
selves together, that I may tell you that which shall 
befall you in the last days. 

Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; 
and hearken unto Israel your father... . 

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law- 
giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and 
unto him shall the gathering of the people be— 
GENESIS 49: I, 2, I0. 


And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels 
fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought 
and his angels REVELATION I2: 7. 


And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great 
things and blasphemies; and power was given unto 
him to continue forty and two months. 

And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to 
blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them 
that dwell in heaven. 

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, 
and to overcome them; and power was given him over 
all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, 
whose names are not written in the book of life of 
the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 

If any man have an ear, let him hear-—REVELATION 


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DANIEL’S PRAYER FOR GOD’S PEOPLE AND GOD’S CITY 


And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer 
and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and 
ashes: 

And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my con- 
fessions, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful 
God, keeping the-covenant and mercy to them that 
love him, and to them that keep his commandments ; 

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have 
done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing 
from thy precepts, and from thy judgments: 

Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the 
prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our 
princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the 
land. 

O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us 
confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of 
Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto 
all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through 
all the countries whither thou hast driven them, be- 
cause of their trespass that they have trespassed 
against thee. 

O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, 
to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have 
sinned against thee, 

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, 
though we have rebelled against him; 

Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, 
to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his 
servants the prophets. 

Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by de- 
parting, that they might not obey thy voice; there- 
fore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that ts 
written in the law of Moses the servant of God, be- 
cause we have sinned against him. 


ADAM AI 


And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake 
against us, and against our judges that judged us, by 
bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole 
heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon 
Jerusalem. 

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come 
upon us; yet made we not our prayer before the Lord 
our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and 
understand thy truth. 

Therefore hath the Lord waiched upon the evil, and 
brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous 
in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not 
his voice. 

And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people 
forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, 
and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have 
sinned, we have done wickedly. 

O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech 
thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away 
from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because 
for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, 
Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to 
all that are about us. 

Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy 
servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to 
shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the 
Lord’s sake. 

O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, 
and behold our desolation, and the city which is 
called by thy name; for we do not present our suppli- 
cations before thee for our righteousnesses, but for 
thy great mercies. 

O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and 
do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy 
city and thy people are called by thy name.—DANIEL 
9: 3-19. 


42 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth 
his secret unto his servants the prophets—Amos 


eee p 


And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather your- 
selves together, that I may tell you that which shall 
befall you in the last days. 

Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; 
and hearken unto Israel your father... . 

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver 
from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto 
him shall the gathering of the people be——GENESIS 
AY 8D) aww il Os 


II 


AFTER MANY DAYS 
HE Prince of Peace is to come in the later 
days, even Jesus Christ: 

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from 
far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from 
the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my 
name. 

And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in 
the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me 
a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; 

And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in 
whom I will be glorified. 

Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have speni my 
strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judg- 
ment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. 

And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb 
to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though 
Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the 
eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength. 

And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be 
my servant to raise up the tribes of Jucob, and to 
restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee 
for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my 
salvation unto the end of the earth.—IsatAH 49: 1-6. 


For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall 
stand at the latter day upon the earth-—-JoB 19: 25. 
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44 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


After many days thou shalt be visited: In the latter 
years thou shalt come into the land that is brought 
back from the sword, and is gathered out of many 
people, against the mountains of Israel, which have 
been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the 
nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them— 
EZEKIEL 38: 8. 


THE OLD AND THE NEW COVENANT 


The last will and testament of a man can only 
be probated after his death, so Jesus Christ made 
a New Testament, which made the first testament 
not effective because of the new and last one. 


In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the 
first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old 
is ready to vanish away.— HEBREWS 8: 13. 


Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of 
divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. 

For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was 
the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; 
which is called the sanctuary. 

And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called 
the Holtest of all... . 

Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests 
went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing 
the service of God. 

But into the second went the high priest alone once 
every year, not without blood, which he offered for 
himself, and for the errors of the people: 

The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the 
holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the 
first tabernacle was yet standing: 


AFTER MANY DAYS 45 


Which was a figure for the time then present, in which 
were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not 
make him that did the service Per ieat, as pertaining 
to the conscience ; 

Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers wash- 
ings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until 
the time of reformation. 

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to 
come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not 
made with hands, that is to say, not of this build- 
ing; 

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his 
own blood he entered in once into the holy place, 
having obtained eternal redemption for us. 

For tf the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an 
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the puri- 
fying of the flesh: 

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through 
the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, 
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the 
living God?—HEBREWS 9:1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 
DUNT OLA. 


When God created the heavens and the earth, 
Man was his greatest work. The High Priest alone 
went into the Second Tabernacle, not without blood, 
to cleanse in a figure the greatest of God’s creation 
—Man. Ina figure the blood of goats and calves 
was not the best. God gave His only begotten Son. 
Now we are clean through the Word which He has 
spoken to Jew and Gentile. 


Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken 
unto you.—JOHN 15: 3. 


46 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


In Jeremiah, thirteenth chapter, we find these 
words: 


Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made 
clean? when shall it once be? or as the margin has it 
after when yet? 


David, the King_and Prophet, wanted God to 
make a new creation in him. 


Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right 
spirit within me.—PSALM 5I: Io. 


For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that 
are sanctified —HEBREWS 10: I4. 


And in the process of time it came to pass, that Cain 
brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto 
the Lord. 

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock 
and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect 
unto Abel and to his offering. 

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. 
And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 
—GENESIS 4: 3, 4, 5. 


By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice 
than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was 
righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he 
being dead yet speaketh. 

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see 
death; and was not found, because God had trans- 
lated him: for before his translation he had this testi- 
mony, that he pleased God.—HEBREWS ITI: 4, 5. 


Why may not Israel have this joy? 


AFTER MANY DAYS 47 


Fulfl ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the 
same love, being of one accord, of one mind.— 
PHILIPPIANS 2: 2. 


ZION 


But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the moun- 
tain of the house of the Lord shall be established in 
the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above 
the hills; and people shall flow unto it. 

And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let 
us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the 
house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his 
ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall 
go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from 
Jerusalem.—MIcaH 4: I, 2. 


We are now in the latter days mentioned in the 
Old Testament and in the New Testament, under 
the new covenant. The time of Jesus Christ, the 
second Adam. 


God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake 
in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. 

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, 
whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom 
also he made the worlds HEBREWS I: 1, 2. 


Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. 

Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again 
in the resurrection of the last day. 

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: 
he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet 
Shaul He Myers. . 

She said unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art 


48 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into 
the world.—JOHN I1: 23, 24, 25, 27. 


Paul the “apostle” of Jesus Christ gave admoni- 
tion to the young Timothy as follows: 


This know also, that in the last days perilous times 
shall come. 

But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned 
and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou 
hast learned them. .. . 

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scrip- 
tures, which are able to make thee wise unto salva- 
tion through faith which ts in Christ Jesus. 

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is 
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for 
instruction in righteousness: 

That the man of God may be perfect, throughly fur- 
nished unto all good works——II TIMoTHY 3:1, 14, 
AEE gg oy I 


ISRAEL NOT CAST AWAY BUT SAVED BY GRACE 


In his epistle to the Romans, Paul writes of the 
salvation by the grace of God, through faith, of 
both Jews and Gentiles: 


I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God for- 
bid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abra- 
ham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 

God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. 
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how 
he maketh intercession to God against Israel, say- 


ing, 


AFTER MANY DAYS 49 


Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down 
thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my 
life—ROMANS II: I, 2, 3. 


God predestinated those He foreknew to be con- 
formed to the image of his Son. 


For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to 
be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might 
be the firstborn among many brethren—ROMANS 
B20, 


In the epistle of Paul to the Romans, we are also 
informed that those elected by grace cannot be 
elected by works. 


But what saith the answer of God unto him? TI have 
reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have 
not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. 

Even so then at this present time also there is a rem- 
nant according to the election of grace. 

And if by grace, then is it no more of works: other- 
wise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, 
then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more 
work. 

What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he 
seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the 
rest were blinded.—RoMANS IT: 4, 5, 6, 7. 


Paul writing to the Romans, refers to the proph- 
ecy of David: 


And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and 
a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense unto 
them. 


so THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and 
bow down their back alway. 

I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? 
God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is 
come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jeal- 
OUuSY. 

Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and 
the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; 
how much more their fulness?—-ROMANS II: 9, I0, 
TU 4a 2) 


Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heavi- 
ness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there 
was none; and for comforters, but I found none. 

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst 
they gave me vinegar to drink. 

Let their table become a snare before them; and that 
which should have been for their welfare, let 1t become 
a trap. 

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not: and make 
their loins continually to shake-—PSALM 69: 20, 21, 
ve wa EY 


And Paul likens the Roman Gentiles to a wild 
olive tree: 


For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the 
apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: 

If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which 
are my flesh, and might save some of them. 

For if by casting away of them be the reconciling of 
the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but 
life from the dead? 

For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and 
if the root be holy, so are the branches. 


AFTER MANY DAYS 51 


And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, 
being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, 
and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the 
olive tree.— ROMANS II: 13, 14, I5, 16, 17. 


And, again, the apostle to the Gentiles mentions 
the goodness of God toward them and to the good- 
ness of God to the Jews if they remain not in un- 
belief. 


Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and 
thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed 
lest he also spare not thee. 

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on 
them which fell, severity; but towards thee, good- 
ness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou 
also shalt be cut off. 

And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall 
be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. 

For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild 
by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into 
a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which 
be the natural branches, be graffed into their own 
olive tree? 

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of 
this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own con- 
ceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, 
unit the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.—ROMANS 
PEzOu2 hy zat 2e aA r6a 6. 


Israel is mentioned as the firstfruits of the Lord’s 
increase. 


Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits 
of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; 


52 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.... 
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, 
and with your children’s children will I plead... . 
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no 
gods? but my people have changed thei glory for 
that which doth not profit?—JEREMIAH 2: 3, 9, II. 


And we find in the law that firstfruits were to 
become the Lord’s portion. 


Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, 
and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt 
thou give unto me.—EXODUS 22: 29. 


The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of 
thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt 
thou give him.—DEUTERONOMY 18: 4. 


But the Gospel turns from the law to grace, from 
the flesh to the spirit, from Moses to the Christ 
he prophesied of. 


And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the 
firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan 
within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the 
redemption of our body.—RoOMANS 8: 23. 


Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that 
we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.— 
JAMES 1: 18, 


Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ. 


For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth 
came by Jesus Christ. 


AFTER MANY DAYS 53 


No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten 
Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath 
declared him.—JOHN 1:17, 18. 


But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the 
firstfruits of them that slept —I CoRINTHIANS I5: 20. 


What is meant by the words of the writer of 
the epistles to the Hebrews? 


For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump also is holy: and 
_ if the root be holy, so are the branches ——RoMANS 
OL 6 


Is it not that if Christ is holy, His firstfruits are 
holy also, seeing He is One with the Father? 


THE REDEEMER 


Is it possible to construe the word ‘‘Redeemer” 
into any other meaning than one who redeems, who 
pays the demand, who gives an equivalent for what 
is pledged? Why, is not for man to say. Sufficient 
is it to know that we are bought, and that the 
price is paid: 


Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the 
Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens 
of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their 
bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out 
arm, and with great judgments.—EXoDUS 6: 6. 


Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm 
of the Lord revealed? 


54. THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,, 
and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form 
nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no 
beauty that we should desire him. 

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, 
and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our 
faces from him; he was despised and we esteemed 
him not. 

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sor- 
rows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitien of God, 
and afflicted. 

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was 
bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our 
peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are 
healed. 

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned 
every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on 
him the iniquity of us all. 

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened 
not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaugh- 
ter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so 
he openeth not his mouth. 

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who 
Shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of 
the land of the living; for the transgression of my 
people was he stricken. 

And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the 
rich in his death; because he had done no violence, 
neither was any deceit in his mouth. 

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him 
to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering 
for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, 
and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 

He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satis- 
fied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant 
justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 


AFTER MANY DAYS 55 


Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, 
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong: because 
he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was 
numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin 
of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. 
—ISAIAH 53: I-12. 


Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the 
sons of Jacob and Joseph.—PSALM 77: 15. 


But now saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, 
and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I 
have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; 
thou art mine.—ISAIAH 43: I. 


Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of 
Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he 
hath redeemed Jerusalem.—ISAIAH 52: 9. 


For he said, Surely they are my people, children that 
will not lie; so he was their Saviour. 

In all thew affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of 
his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity 
he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried 
them all the days of old. 

But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore 
he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought 
against them. 

Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his 
people, saying, Where is he that brought them up 
out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where 
is he that put his holy Spirit within him? 

That led them by the right hand of Moses with his 
glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to 
make himself an everlasting name?—IsAIAH 63: 8, 9, 
Us Bh Sais 3 


56 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will 
redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy 
plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repent- 
ance shall be hid from mine eyes——HOSEA 13: I4. 


O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy 
victory?—I CORINTHIANS I5: 55. 


Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into 
Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into 
death: that like as Christ was raised up from the 
dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also 
should walk in newness of life. 

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of 
his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resur- 
rection: 

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, 
that the body of sin may be destroyed, that hence- 
forth we should not serve sin. 

For he that is dead is freed from sin. 

Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall 
also live with him——RoMANS 6: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 


Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so 
also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, 
it shall die-—EZEKIEL 18: 4. 


Behold the man! 


Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, 
and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, 
Behold the man! 

When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, 
they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. 
Pilate saith unto them, 


AFTER MANY DAYS 57 


Take ye him, and tee him: hi I find no fault in 
him —Joun 19: 5, 6 


THE SECOND ADAM 


And so it is written, The first man Adam was made 
a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening 
spirit. 

Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that 
which is natural; and afterwards that which is spir- 
itual. 

The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is 
the Lord from Heaven.—I CORINTHIANS I5: 45, 46, 


47. 
“Behold I make all things new!” 


And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make ali 
things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these 
words are true and faithful—REVELATION 21: 5. 


Let us answer Isaiah’s question, “Who hath be- 
lieved our report and to whom is the arm of the 
Lord revealed?” 

What man assuming to be a King, beside Jesus 
Christ, “the King of the Jews” has ever sought to 
be exalted among men who did not expect to live, 
and hoped to live and rejoice in the honours he 
sought. But here was a man who knew He was 
sent of God the Father, to die for mankind and 
set about his Father’s business at twelve years of 
age and set His face like a flint to meet that death 
at Jerusalem. 


58 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into 
Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through 
all the region round about. 

And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of 
all, 

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought 
up: and, as his custom was, he went into the syn- 
agogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to 
read. 

And there was delivered unto him the book of the 
prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, 
he found the place where it was written, 

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath 
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath 
sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliver- 
ance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the 
blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. 

To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 

And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the 
minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them 
that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.— 
LUKE 4: I4-20. 


The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the 
Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto 
the meek: he hath sent me to bind up the broken- 
hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the 
opening of the prison to them that are bound. 

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the 
day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that 
mourn. 

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto 
them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, 
the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; 
that they might be called trees of righteousness, the 
planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. 


AFTER MANY DAYS 59 


And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up 
the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste 
cities, the desolations of many generations. 

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the 
sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vine 
dressers. 

But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men 
shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall 
eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall 
ye boast yourselves—ISAIAH 61: 1-6. 


And he said unto them, How ts it that ye sought me? 
wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s busi- 
ness?—LUKE 2: 49. 


Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the 
name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters 
of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and 
make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, 
nor in righteousness. 

For they shall call themselves of the holy city, and 
stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of 
hosts is his name... . 

For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for 
my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not 
iy | eee 

Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am 
he; I am the first, I also am the last... . 

All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among 
them hath declared these things? The Lord hath 
loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his 
arm shall be on the Chaldeans... . 

Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken 
in secret from the beginning; from that time it was, 
there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit 
hath sent me.—IsalaH 48: I, 2, 9, 12, 14, 16. 


60 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the 
world; but that the world through him might be 
saved.—JOHN 3:17. 


He sent redemption unto his people: he hath com- 
manded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is 
his name.—PSAaLM III: 9. 


For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not 
be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a 
flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.— 
ISAIAH 50: 7. 


The life is more than meat, and the body is more than 
raiment. 

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good 
pleasure to give you the kingdom.—LUKE 12: 23, 32. 


The apostle John in his first epistle General; 
second chapter, asserts in strong terms that not to 
know the Son (that is, to deny Him) is evidence by 
those who deny him that they do not know the 
Father. 


Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the 
Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath 
the Father also—I JouN 2: 23. 


BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST 


Note that it is not ‘a Son” as Adam was, but 
“The Son,” thereby referring to the only begotten 
Son of the Father, Jesus Christ. 


I and my Father are one.—JOHN I0: 30. 


AFTER MANY DAYS 61 


Having yet therefore one son, his welibeloved, he sent 
him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence 
my son.—MARK 12: 6. 


There is no middle path marked out in Scripture 
- leading to salvation. Jesus Christ is the way. 


He that is not with me is against me; and he that gath- 
ereth not with me scattereth abroad —MAtTITHEew 
12: 30. 


The New Testament, the New Covenant, is al- 
ways true to Jewish prophets. 


And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of 
stumbling and for a rock of offence to both houses 
of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants 
of Jerusalem. 

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be 
broken, and be snared, and be taken. 

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 
And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face 
from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given 
me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the 
Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.— 

IsaAIAH 8: 14-18. 


And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name 
was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, 
waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy 
Ghost was upon him. 

And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that 
he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s 
Christ. 


62 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


And he came by the Spirit into the temple; and when 
the parents brought him the child Jesus, to do for 
him after the custom of the law. 

Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and 
said, 

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, ac- 
cording to thy word: 

For mine eyes have seen thy salvation; 

Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; 

A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy 
people Israel —LUKE 2: 25-32. 


Was it not a miracle that Isaac was given to 
Abraham and Sarah in their old age? Could not 
the Virgin Mary likewise bear a Son by the Spirit 
of God, who ordained both births—the first and 
new covenant: 


And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all 
that hear will laugh with me. 

And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, 
that Sarah should have given children suck? for I 
have born him a son in his old age.—GENESIS 21: 6, 7. 


Does it require more faith to believe that God 
(who created Adam) could bring to birth from a 
virgin a second Adam, than that faith which was 
given Abraham when he offered up Isaac, his only 
son—the son of promise? 


I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in 
the rivers. 

He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, 
and the rock of my salvation. 


AFTER MANY DAYS 63 


Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the 
kings of the earth, 

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my 
covenant shall stand fast with him. 

His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his 
throne as the days of heaven.—PsaLmM 89: 25, 26, 
ay PRE BBE Aa 


What house, except the Lord’s own house, could 
fulfil the prophecies of David? 


Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto thy servant 
David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from 
the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that 
thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel... . 

And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that 
thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I wil 
raise up thy seed afier thee, which shall be of thy 
sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 

He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his 
throne for ever. ... 

And David the king came and sat before the Lord, and 
said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is mine house, 
that thou hast brought me hitherto? ... 

O Lord, for thy servant’s sake, and according to thine 
own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in mak- 
ing known all these great things. 

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people 
Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own 
people, to make thee a name of greatness and terrible- 
ness by driving out the nations from before thy 
people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt? 

For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people 
for ever; and thou, Lord, becamest their God.—I 
CHRONICLES 17:'7, II, 12, 16, 19, 21, 22. 


64 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


It should be noticed that the seed which should 
be raised after David was to be later than his sons, 
and his kingdom should be established. David’s 
house in the seventeenth verse is spoken of “for a 
great while to come,’—Solomon’s house was nigh, 
next to David, therefore it was not Solomon’s reign 
that is here referred to, but Jesus Christ’s. 

The Old and the New Testaments agree as being 
the word of God: 


And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and 
bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus. 
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the 
Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the 

throne of his father David.—LUKE 1: 31, 32. 


According to the word that I covenanted with you when 
ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among 
you: fear ye not. 

For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Vet once, it is a little 
while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, 
and the sea, and the dry land; 

And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all na- 
tions shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, 
saith the Lord of hosts. 

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord 
of hosts. 

The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the 
former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will 
I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts —WHaccat 2: 5-9. 


The Scripture is perfect in its agreements; it 
cannot be broken: 


AFTER MANY DAYS 65 


The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law- 
giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and 
unto him shall the gathering of the people be— 
GENESIS 49: I0. 

I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but 
not nigh: there shall come a star out of Jacob, and 
a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the 
corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of 
Sheth-——NUMBERS 24: 17. 


And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and 
the firstbegotten of the dead, and the prince of the 
kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and 
washed us from our sins in his own blood. 

And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his 
Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and 
ever. Amen. 

Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall 
see him, and they also which pierced him; and all 
kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. 
Even so, Amen. 

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, 
saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which 
is to come, the Almighty—REVELATION I: 5, 6, 7, 8. 


I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these 
things in the churches. I am the root and the off- 
spring of David, and the bright and morning star.— 
REVELATION 22: 16. 


All Scripture must be fulfilled. 


But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets 
might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, 
and fled—MATTHEW 26: 56. 


66 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God 
came, and the scripture cannot be broken. 

Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and 
sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I 
said, I am the Son of God. 

If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.— 


JoHN 10: 35, 36, 37. 


And again another scripture saith, They shall lcok on 
him whom they pierced—JOHN 19: 37. 


For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the 
wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and 
my feet—PSALM 22: 16. 


Jesus is the morning star that shone above all 
others, the only begotten Son. 


When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons 
of God shouted for joy?—JoB 38: 7. 


The apostle John very earnestly pleads in his 
first letter, that to deny that Jesus is the Christ 
(I John, second chapter) places all who do so in 
opposition to the truth. John, in his gospel by 
inspiration of the Holy Spirit, writes of the ful- 
filment of the Tabernacle and of the New Covenant 
made by the Lord. 


And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will 
be their God. 

And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, 
that brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I 
may dwell among them: I am the Lord their God.— 
EXODUS 29: 45, 46. 


AFTER MANY DAYS 67 


Also the Covenant proclaimed by the prophet 
Isaiah. 


And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the 
mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in 
the top of the mountains, and shali be exalted above 
the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 

And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us 
go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of 
the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, 
and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall 
go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from 
Jerusalem. 

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke 
many people: and they shall beat their swords into 
plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: na- 
tion shall not lift up sword against nation, neither 
shall they learn war any more.—ISAIAH 2: 2, 3, 4. 


This is also proclaimed by Jesus Christ when He 
(the Word) was made Flesh, in His book of 
Revelation. 


And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make 
all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for 
these words are true and faithful. 

And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and 
Omega; the beginning and the end. I will give unto 
him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of 
life freely. 

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will 
be his God, and he shall be my son—REVELATION 


Aes Oy en]: 


He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High 
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 


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I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: 
my God; in him will I trust. 

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, 
and from the noisome pestilence.—-PSALM QI: I, 2, 3. 


There is a Redeemer in the Godhead. Not only 
will be, but 7s, as is written of Him: “I am the first 
and the last.” 


Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his re- 
deemer the Lord of hosts; Iam the first, and Iamthe | 
last; and beside me there is no God. 

And who, as I, shali call, and shall declare it, and set it 
in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? 
and the things that are coming, and shall come, let 
them shew unto them. 

Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from 
that time, and have declared it? ye are even my 
witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is 
no God: I know not any.—ISAiAH 44: 6, 7, 8. 


While the Pharisees were gathered, Jesus asked 
them whose Son Christ was? They answered 
“David’s.” Yet both the Old and the New Testa- 
ments agree that He is the only begotten Son of 
God, by the following Scripture: 


The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, 
until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 

The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of 
Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in 
the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morn- 
ing: thou hast the dew of thy youth. 

The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a 
priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. 


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The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings 
in the day of his wrathPSALM I10: I, 2, 3, 4, 5- 


On these two commandments hang all the law and the 
prophets. 

While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked 
them, 

Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son ts he? 
They say unto him, The son of David. 

He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call 
him Lord, saying, 

The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right 
hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? 

If David then called him Lord, how is he his son?— 
MATTHEW 22: 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45. 


If both the Spirit in David and Jesus agree that 
Christ is the Son of God at His right hand, does it 
not become every one of God’s chosen people to 
agree with the Scripture and accept Him as their 
Messiah, who was, and is, and is to come—the 
Lord? 


And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with 
me and wyll keep me in this way that I go, and will 
give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on. 

So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; 
then shall the Lord be my God.—GENESIS 28: 20, 21. 


Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; 
break up your fallow, ground: for it ts time to seek 
the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon 
you.—HOSEA I0: 12. 


Job sought God, but He was hidden on the right 
hand. 


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Ok that I knew where I might find him! that I might 
come even to his seat! ... 

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and back- 
ward, but I cannot perceive him: 

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot 
behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that 
I cannot see him. 

But he knoweth thé way that I take: when he hath 
tried me, I shall come forth as gold... . 

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty 
troubleth me.—JOB 23: 3, 8, 9, 10, 16. 


And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these 
words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Teman- 
ite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against 
thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the 
thing that is right, as my servant Job hath— 


JOB 42: 7. 


Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest 
by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee 
from those that rise up against them—PSALM 17: 7. 


Jesus proclaimed Himself the Christ, the Son of 
the Blessed, as witness the following Scripture: 


Bui he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again 
the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art 
thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? 

And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man 
sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in 
the clouds of heaven.—Mark 14: 61, 62. 


Til 
DIVISIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE 


pee Jews divided their sacred books into » 


three parts: 
1. “The Law” (Torah) comprising the 
five books of Moses. 

2. “The Prophets” (Nebiim) comprising the 
books of Joshua, Judges, I and IIT Samuel, I and 
II Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the 
twelve minor Prophets. 

3. “The Writings” (Kethubim). Under this 
title were placed: 

I. Psalms, Proverbs, Job. 

II. Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, 
Ecclesiastes, Esther. 

III. Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, I and II 
Chronicles. 

The writer finds the Old and the New Testa- 
ment interwoven. The quotations from them are 
taken as occasion arises in this book for their use 
rather than any purpose of treating the Testaments 
separately. 

In comparing the Bible with Judaism, the writer 
has made use of the book, ‘Studies in Judaism,” 
written by the Hebrew Scholar, S. Schechter, M.A., 
Reader in Talmudic in the University of Cam- 

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bridge. The book is published by the Jewish 
Publication Society of America. 

From that authority under the head of “The 
Dogma of Judaism,” the following quotation is 
made: 


“As is weil known, Maimonides (1130-1205) was the 
first Rabbanite who formulated the dogmas of the 
Synagogue. But there are indications of earlier 
attempts.” 

“That Maimonides was quite conscious of the impor- 
tance of this exposition can be gathered from the con- 
cluding words addressed to the reader: ““Know these 
(words) and repeat them many times, and think them 
over in the proper way. God knows that thou wouldst 
be deceiving thyself if thou thinkest thou hast under- 
stood them by having read them once or even ten times. 
Be not, therefore, hasty in perusing them. I have not 
composed them without deep study and earnest re- 
flection.” 


The result of this deep study was that the fol- 
lowing Thirteen Articles constitute the creed of 
Judaism. They are: 


1. The belief in the existence of a Creator: 2. The 
belief in His Unity; 3. The belief in His Incorpore- 
ality; 4. The belief in His Eternity; 5. The belief that 
all worship and adoration are due to Him alone; 6. The 
belief in Prophecy; 7. The belief that Moses was the 
greatest of all Prophets, both before and after him; 
8. The belief that the Torah was revealed to Moses on 
Mount Sinai; 9. The belief in the Immutability of this 
revealed Torah; 10. The belief that God knows the 
actions of men; 11. The belief in Reward and Punish- 


DIVISIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE 73 


ment; 12. The belief in the coming of the Messiah; 
13. The belief in the Resurrection of, the dead. 


It will be noticed at once by the Christian reader 
that a great similarity exists between these dogmas 
of Judaism by Maimonides and the Christian’s 
creed, with the following exceptions: 

“The belief in His Incorporeality (the Creator). 

“The belief that Moses was the greatest of all 
Prophets, both before and after him. 

“The belief in the coming of the Messiah.” 

First:—We compare with the written Word 
(Torah), the Immutability of which word is 
assented to in Article Nine of the Dogma or Creed 
of Judaism. 7 

“The belief in the Creator’s Incorporeality, that 
is, according to the dictionary ‘being intangible’: 
It would be impossible to make an Image of an in- 
tangible personality, when the Deity—Father, 
Son and Holy Ghost (God), said, Let us make 
man in our image, after our likeness.” He made 
man in all his parts The Created Man. The image 
and likeness must reveal the tangible original. 


And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our 
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of 
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the 
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping 
thing that creepeth upon the earth—GENESIS I: 26. 


Thus man was made in the Image and after the 
Likeness of Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son 


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of God, The Word, by whom man was made. The 
“Word” signifies the Jew’s “Messiah,” by usage of 
the Jews, according to Jewish literature. 


Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that 
rideth upon the heavens by his name J A H, and re- 
joice before him.—PsatM 68: 4. 


The Chaldean Paraphrasists, the most ancient 
Jewish writers extant (according to Cruden) gener- 
ally made use of the word ‘“MEMRA,” which sig- 
nifies the ‘‘worpD,” in those places where Moses 
puts the name “JEHOVAH.” 


I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy 
name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truths: for 
thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.— 
PSALM 138: 2. 


And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto 
Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my 
name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.—ExopuUs 
Gi), 


It was in the form of man that God appeared 
to Jacob at Peniel. 


And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man 
with him until the breaking of the day. 

And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he 
touched the hollow, of his thigh; and the hollow of 
Jacob’s thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with 
him. 

And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he 
said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 


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And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, 
Jacob. 

And he said, Thy name shall be calied no more Jacob, 
but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God 
and with men, and hast prevailed. 

And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, 
thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou 
dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. 

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I 
have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 
—GENESIS 32: 24-30. 


The Lord spake unto Moses as a man speaketh 
unto his friend. 


And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man 
speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into 
the camp; but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a 
young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.— 
EXODUS 33: II. 


The Lord’s hand was used in covering Moses and 
Moses saw his back parts. 


And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see 
my back parts: but my face shall not be seen— 
EXODUS 33: 23. 


The Lord wrote upon the tables of stone. “The 
Lord stood there” with Moses. 


And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with 
him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.— 
EXODUS 34: 5. 


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Second: Seventh Article. The belief that Moses 
was the greatest of all prophets, both before and 
after him. The Lord said unto Moses, “I will 
raise up a prophet from among their breth- 
ren.” 


I will raise them up a prophet from among their 
brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his 
mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall 
command him. 

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not 
hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my 
name, I will require it of him—DEUTERONOMY 
18:26, LO: 


Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that 
Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that 
should come into the world.—JOHN 6: 14. 


And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the mul- 
titudes concerning John, What went ye out into the 
wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the 
LONGED Die 

For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my 
messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy 
way before thee. 

Verily I say unto you. Among them that are born of 
women there hath not risen a greater than John the 
Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the king- 
dom of heaven 1s greater than he.—MAtTTHEW It: 7, 
TOWEL. 


Therefore Moses was not greater than John, ac- 
cording to the words of Jesus, nor according to 





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the following words of Isaiah, for he names the 
child that is born “the everlasting Father,” and in 
Psalms as ‘“‘above his fellows.” 


For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and 
the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his 
name Shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of 
Peace. 

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall 
be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his 
kingdom, to order it, and to establish it, with judg- 
ment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. 
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.— 
ISAIAH Q: 6, 7. 


Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: 
therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the 
oil of gladness above thy fellows—PSALM 45: 7. 


Third: Article 12. The belief in the coming of 
the Messiah. 

If this article referred to the second coming of 
the Messiah, there would be no comment by the 
writer, but it is evident that the belief is to the 
Jewish conception of a Messiah which is not Jesus 
Christ. 

It is our purpose to quote from the Bible which 
shows that the Messiah has come and will come 
again. 

There is direct prophecy of the coming of Jesus 
Christ, the Anointed, the Messiah in Hannah’s 
prayer and song. I Samuel, Second Chapter, com- 


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pare it with the fulfilment by the song of Mary, 
the Mother of our Lord. i 


And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in 
the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord: my mouth 
is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in 
thy salvation. 

There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside 
thee: neither is there any rock like our God. 

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy 
come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of 
knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.—I 
SAMUEL 2: 1, 2, 3. 


And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord. 

And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. 

For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: 
for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call 
me blessed. 

For he that is mighty hath done to me great things: and 
holy is his name.—LUKE 1: 46, 47, 48, 49. 


The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that 
stumbled are girded with strength. 

They that were full have hired out themselves for 
bread ; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the 
barren hath born seven; and she that haih many 
children is waxed feeble. 

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down 
to the grave, and bringeth up. 

The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth 
low, and lifteth up. 

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up 
the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among 
princes, and to make them inherii the throne of glory: 


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for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath 
set the world upon them.—I SAMUEL 2: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 


MARY’S SONG 


And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation 
to generation. 

He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath 
scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. 

He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and 
exalted them of low degree. 

He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich 
he hath sent empty away.—LUKE I: 50, 51, 52, 53. 


HANNAH’S SONG 


He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall 
be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man 
prevail. 

The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; 
out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord 
shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give 
strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his 
anointed.—I SAMUEL 2: 9, Io. 


MARY’S SONG 


He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of 
his mercy; 

As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed 
forever —LUKE I: 54, 55. 


And here follows the fulfilment of Hannah’s 
prayer and prophetic song by the prophet Zach- 


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arias, the father of John, the forerunner of our 
Lord: 


And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy 
Ghost, and prophesied, saying, 

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited 
and redeemed his people, 

And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the 
house of his servant David; 

As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which 
have been since the world began: 

That we should be saved from our enemies, and from 
the hand of all that hate us; 

To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to 
remember his holy covenant ; 

The oath which he sware to our forefather Abraham, 

That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered 
out of the hand of our enemies might serve him with- 
out fear, 

In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of 
our life. 

And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the High- 
est: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to 
prepare his ways; 

To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the 
remission of their sins, 

Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the 
dayspring from on high hath visited us, 

To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the 
shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of 
peace.—LUKE I: 67-79. 


There was no king of the children of Israel at 
the time Hannah gave her prayer and song, except 
the Saviour of whom she prophesied. 


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Here is the proclamation of the Messiah, the 
only begotten Son of God, who came as Bethle- 
hem’s babe, recorded by the Spirit: 


I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unio me, 
Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.— 
PSALMS 2: 7. 


God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in 
that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also writ- 
ten in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day 
have I begotten thee-——ACTS 13: 33. 


Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness; 
therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the 
oil of gladness above thy fellows—PSALM 45: 7. 


It was Andrew who found the Messiah and told 
his brother Simon of Him, but it was God the 
Father who made known to Simon Peter that Jesus 
was the Christ. 


One of the two which heard John speak and followed 
him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. 

He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto 
him, We have found the Messias, whichis, being in- 
terpreted, the Christ—JOHN I: 40, 41. 


And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the 
Christ, the Son of the living God. 

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art 
thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not 
revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in 
heaven.—MAtTTHEW 16: 16, 17. 


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All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no 
man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither know- 
eth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to 
whomsoever the Son will reveal him—MAtTTHEW 
pH he Do 


Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the 
life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.— 
JOHN 14: 6. 


It was urged upon the disciples by Jesus to be- 
lieve upon Him as they believed in God. 


Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, be- 
lieve also in me.—JOHN I4: I. 


Immediately upon asking them to do this, He 
turns their attention to his Father’s house. 


In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not 
so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place 
for you.—JOHN I4: 2. 


The heavens that are telling the glory of God 
are the work of God which by their association 
with Him they have learned to believe in. 


O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the 
earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, 
the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained ; 
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the 
son of man that thou visiiest him?—Psa_mM 8: 

I, 3, 4- 


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The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firma- 
ment sheweth his handywork. 

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night 
sheweth knowledge. 

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not 
heard.— PSALM 19: I, 2, 3. 


Because that which may be known of God is manifest 
in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the 
world are clearly seen, being understood by the things 
that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead ; 
so that they are without excuse-—ROMANS I: I9, 20. 


Yes; the disciples believed in God, but had not 
as yet sufficiently believed in Him to find the way 
to come to him through His Christ, His Messiah, 
His Son. The Way, the Truth and the Life from 
henceforth they were to realise and know Christ as 
the way to God, through whom they had been led. 

Israel learned to know God, but not to come to 
Him as a people as closely as he wanted. He chose 
Israel for His people. They rejected Him. He 
wants them as sons to come to Him. 


For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to 
be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might 
be the firstborn among many brethren—ROMANS 
S220. 


For it became him, for whom are all things, and by 
whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto 
glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect 
through sufferings HEBREWS 2: 10. 


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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art 
thou so far from helping me, and from the words of 
my roaring? ... 

He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let 
him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. 

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou 
didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s 
breasts... . i 

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of 
joint; my heart ts like wax; it is melted in the midst 
of my bowels. 

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue 
cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into 
the dust of death... . 

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. 

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon 
my vesture—PSALM 22: 1, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18. 


When He accomplished the shedding of His 
blood and the giving of His body for mankind, He 
gloried in His completed work, saying—‘It is 
finished” and gave up His Spirit to His Father who 
sent Him. 


They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall; and 
when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. 

And they crucified him, and paried his garments, cast- 
ing lots; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken 
by the prophet, They parted my garments among 
them, and upon my vesture did they cast lois... . 

He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will 
have him; for he said, I am the Son of God. ... 

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, 
saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My 
God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? . 


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The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come 
to save him. 

Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, 
yielded up the ghost—MATTHEW 27: 34, 35, 43, 46, 


49, 50. 


FAITH AND HOPE OF JUDAISM 


In our search for tenets of Judaism we find on 
page 151 in the book, “Studies in Judaism,” by 
Schechter, the following: 


I have no intention here of answering the question, 
What is Judaism? This question is not less perplexing 
than the problem, What is God’s world? Judaism is 
also a great Infinite, composed of as many endless 
Units, the Jews. And these Unit-Jews have been, and 
are still, scattered through all the world, and have 
passed under an immensity of influences, good and bad. 
If so, how can we give an exact definition of the In- 
finite, called Judaism? 

But if there is anything sure, it is that the highest 
motives which worked through the history of Judaism 
are the strong belief in God and the unshaken confidence 
that at last this God, the God of Israel, will be the God 
of the whole world; or, in other words, Faith and Hope 
are the two most prominent characteristics of Juda- 
ism. 


Whatever may be considered as the two most 
. prominent characteristics of Judaism, by Schech- 
ter, the Bible gives the following as the two most 
prominent commands of God to men—Love to 
God and Love to Man. 


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Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord. 

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thine 
heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 
—DEUTERONOMY 6: 4, 5. 


Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the 
children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neigh- 
bour as thyself: I-am the Lord—Lerviticus 109: 18. 


And Jesus answered him, The first of all the command- 
ments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one 
Lord: 

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, 
and with all thy strength: this is the first command- 
ment. 

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy 
neighbour as thyself. There is none other command- 
ment greater than these. 

And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast 
said the truth: for there is one God, and there is none 
other but he: 

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the 
understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the 
strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more 
than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices —-MARK 


T2. 29, 30, 31, 32; 33- 


And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted 
him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal 
life? 

He said unto him, What is written in the law? how 
readest thou? 

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy 
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and 
with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy 
neighbour as thyself. 








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And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this 
do, and thou shalt live-—LUKE 10: 25, 26, 27, 28. 


It is to be noted that the second command is said 
by Jesus to be like the first. The loving of God 
and the loving of our neighbour are alike. This 
is taken up again in the New Testament. 


And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have 
somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, 
say on. 

There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the 
one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. 
And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave 
them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will 

love him most? 

Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom 
he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast 
rightly judged.—LUKE 7: 40, 41, 42, 43. 


Thus if we forgive much, we gain the greater 
love, and if any in need are our neighbours, those 
in need of forgiveness, we should forgive, even as 
we expect to be forgiven of our Father in heaven. 


Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also ts 
merciful. : 

Judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, 
and ye shall not be condemned ; forgive, and ye shall 
be forgiven LUKE 6: 36, 37. 


If we say to the friend visiting us in one of the 
delightful spring months: “Let us go along this 
road by the river and then we shall turn to the 


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right along that row of trees you see not far 
away; then we will come to a meadow covered 
with patches here and there of springtime blooms,” 
thus we will, in all likelihood, have interested him 
with a desire to see the beautiful path we know 
of. 

Of all beautiful: paths, there is none as truly 
joyful, enriched with charming landscape, as the 
straight and narrow way pointed out by Jesus 
Christ. 


Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and 
broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and 
many there be which go in thereat: 

Because strait is the gate, and narrow ts the way, which 
leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it— 
MATTHEW 7: 13, 14. 


And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment 
unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith 
the Lord of hosts. 

My covenant with him of life and peace; and I gave 
them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and 
was afraid before my name. 

The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not 
found in his lips; he walked with me in peace and 
equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. 

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they 
should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the mes- 
senger of the Lord of hosts. 

But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused 
many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the 
covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts —MAtacuHt 


ae 4, '5)16) 7,8, 


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Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in 
the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have 
prepared.—EXODUS 23: 20. 


Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the 
dayspring from on high hath visited us. 

To give light to them thaé sit in darkness and in the 
shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of 
peace. 

And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was 
in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel. 
—LUKE I: 78, 79, 80. 


The people that walked in darkness have seen a great 
light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of 
death, upon them hath the light shined... . 

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: 
and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and 
his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
mighty God, The everlasting Father, the Prince of 
Peace. 

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall 
be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his 
kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judg- 
ment and with justice from henceforth even for 
ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform 
this. 

The Lord sent a word unto Jacob, and it hath lighted 
upon Israel_—IsAIAH 9: 2, 6, 7, 8. 


For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou 
shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto 
thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, 
he will answer thee. 

And though the Lord gave you the bread of adversity, 
and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers 


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be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes 
shall see thy teachers.—IsAIAH 30: 19, 20. 


Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou 
goest; and how can we know the way? 

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the 
life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me— 
JOHN 14: 5, 6. 


We are endeavouring to get hold of those tenets 
in Judaism which are so binding as to keep so many 
of its followers from accepting the Messiah, Jesus 
Christ, as their own Messiah, thus we continue to 
quote from “Studies in Judaism” (page 151). 


“Tnsufficient and poor as they may be in proportion 
to the importance of these two fundamental documents 
of Judaism, these remarks may nevertheless suggest a 
connecting link between the teachings of Jewish an- 
tiquity and those of Maimonides and his successors. 

“Y begin with the Scriptures. 

“The Bible itself hardly contains a command bidding 
us to believe. We are hardly ordered, e.g., to believe 
in the existence of God. I say hardly, but I do not 
altogether deny the existence of such a command.” 


Perhaps the most definite command of God to 
believe in Him that He is God, we find in the bold 
prophecy of Isaiah, because it is Israel to whom it 
is directed. 


ISRAEL A CHOSEN WITNESS 


But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, 
and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I 


DIVISIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE  o1 


have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; 
thou art mine... . 

Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant 
whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe 
me, and understand that I am he: before me there 
was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 

I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no 
saviour.—ISAIAH 43: 1, 10, II. 


Here He is mentioned as God and as Redeemer 
and Saviour. It was He who paid the price for 
Israel’s redemption, who are His by right of crea- 
tion and purchase. “He that formed thee, O Israel, 
for I have redeemed thee, thou art mine! Ye are 
my witnesses, saith the Lord.” 

Will His witnesses whom He hath redeemed still 
continue to deny Him by refusing to testify for 
Him? 


Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heavi- 
ness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there 
was none; and for comforters, but I found none— 
PSALM 69: 20. 


Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise 
unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall 
reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and 
justice in the earth. 

In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell 
safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be 
called, THE LorD OuR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that 
they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which 
brought up the children of Israel out of the land of 


Egypt; 


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But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which 
led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north 
country, and from all countries whither I had driven 
them; and they shall dwell in their own land. 

Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; 
all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and 
like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the 
Lord, and because of the words of his holiness —JERE- 
MIAH 23: 5-9. 


The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and 
a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise — 
PSALM 51: 17. 


And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and 
gave unto them saying, This is my body which 1s 
given for you: this do in remembrance of me. 

Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup 
is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for 
you.—LUKE 22: 19, 20. 


Could any greater Saviour and Redeemer appear 
than has appeared to Israel? 


Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Be- 
hold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall 
call his name Immanuel.—ISAtIaAH 7: 14. 


And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his 
name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their 
Sins. 

Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which 
was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring 
forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, 


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which being interpreted is, God with us.”’--MATTHEW 
Deer eo. 2 As 


Are the Gentiles to have faith in the Prophets’ 
words from Scripture, and those to whom they were 
delivered, refuse them? Shall Gentiles be saved 
by the grace of Jesus Christ through faith and the 
children of the promises still cling to faith and 
hope, without the love Christ had for the world— 
that faith and hope which we have quoted from 
“Studies in Judaism” as being “the two most char- 
acteristics of Judaism?”—a faith and a hope with- 
out Jesus Christ who paid the price for their re- 
demption? 


INHERITANCE BY LAW, FAITH AND PROMISE 


For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made 
void, and the promise made of ‘none effect: 

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, 
there is no transgression. 

Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to 
the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; 
not to that only which is of the law, but to that also 
which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father 
of us all—ROMANS 4: 14, 15, 16. 


By whom also we have access by faith into this grace 
wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of 
CS: Sea ap 

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of 
God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost 
which is given unto us... . 

For as by one man’s disobedience many were made 


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sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be 
made righteous——ROMANS 5: 2, 5, 19. 


For I determined not to know anything among you, 
save Jesus Christ and him crucified. 

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in 
much trembling. 

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing 
words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the 
Spirit and of Power; 

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of 
men, but in the power of God.—I CoRINTHIANS 2: 2, 


3) 4, 5. 


By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a 
strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac 
and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 

For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose 
builder and maker is God.—HEBREWS II: 9, 10. 


IV 
HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST 


S to hope, the Lord must be with it to be 
effectual, both Faith and Hope must be di- 
rected by God, and God is Love. 


Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, 
and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, 
or a tinkling cymbal. 

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and under- 
stand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though 
I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, 
and have not charity, I am nothing. .. . 

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but 
the greatest of these is charity—I CORINTHIANS 


re cee ahi aa We 


Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he 
loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for 
our Sins... . 

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, 
God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 

And we have known and believed the love that God 
hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in 
love, dwelleth in God, and God in him—I JouNn 
APuEOn ES yitOs 


Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray 
unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 
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And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search 
for me with all your heart. 

And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will 
turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from 
all tne nations, and from all the places whither I have 
driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you 
again into the place whence I caused you to be car- 
ried away captive.-—JEREMIAH 29: 12, 13, 14. 


Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou 
hast caused me to hope.... 

Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy 
commandments.—PSALM I1Q: 49, 166. 


God will plead with the house of Israel, with 
His Word and Gifts, in order to bring them to 
Faith and hope in Jesus Christ. 


Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and 
all the families of the house of Israel... . 

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, 
and with your children’s children will I plead.— 
JEREMIAH 2: 4, 9. 


Here is Hope—God directed. 


I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at 
my right hand, I shall not be moved. 

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my 
flesh also shall rest in hope. 

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt 
thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence 
is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleas- 
ures for evermore.—PSALM 16: 8, 9, 10, II. 


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Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of 
the world... . 

I will incline mine ear to a he das I will open my dark 
saying upon the harp. . 

None of them can by fain means redeem Pe brother, 
nor give to God a ransom for him... . 

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the 
grave: for he shail receive mée.—PSALM 49:1, 4, 


7, 15. 


For I know, that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall 
stand at the latter day upon the earth: 

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, 
yet in my flesh shall I see God: 

Whom I shali see for myself, and mine eyes shall be- 
hold, and not another, though my reins be consumed 
within me.—JOB 19: 25, 26, 27. 


My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy 
OTS As 

Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in 
AEVGTUONG hase 

Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: 
and let me not be ashamed of my hope.—PsaALM 
PIG. ole t tA. E10. 


We are saved, still if hope fails to be in God, 
is it leading to Salvation? 


For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not 
hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope 
for? 

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with 
patience wait for it. 

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we 


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know not what we should pray for as we ought: but 
the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with 
groanings which cannot be uttered—RoMANS 8: 24, 
PAMELOR 


Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and for 
ever.—PSALM I3I: 3. 


Jesus told His disciples that if He did not go 
away, the Comforter would not come unto them. 


Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for 
you that I go away: for if I do not go away, the 
Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, 
I will send Him unto you-—JOHN 16: 7. 


Jesus ascended on high that He might give gifts 
unto men. 


But unto every one of us is given grace according to 
the measure of the gift of Christ. 

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he 
led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.— 
EPHESIANS 4: 7, 8. 


Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity 
captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, 
for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell 
among them.—PsaM 68: 18. 


WE MAY NOT ADD TO GOD’S WORDS 


What greater gifts could He give men than to 
give His only begotten Son and The Comforter, 


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The Holy Ghost, to lead us into all truth and in- 
tercede for us—notice that the Son’s name is asked. 
Surely there is something marvellous in God’s 
words. 


For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be- 
gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 
not perish, but have everlasting life—JOHN 3: 16. 


The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: 
the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, 

Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not 
the understanding of a@ man. 

I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of 
the holv. 

Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who 
hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound 
the waters in a garment? who hath established all 
the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is 
his son’s name, tf thou canst tell? 

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them 
that put their trust in him. 

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and 
thou be found a liar —PROVERBS 30: 1-6. 


To His Son Jesus there was given the purpose 
to send the Comforter to all who believe in the 
Lord Jesus Christ. It is He who gave us our 
Fathers and our Mothers—who out of the earth we 
tread on, has brought forth food for our temporal 
life, who gives us the sun by day, and the moon 
and the stars by night for our guidance. 

Is it not reasonable that He gave his only be- 
gotten Son to us for our spiritual welfare and to 


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make intercession for us, that we might dwell with 
Him forever, in the light of his presence? 


But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his 
voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all 
ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, 
and hearken to my words... . 

Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the 
patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and 
his sepulchre is with us unto this day. 

Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had 
sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his 
loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ 
to sit on his throne. 

He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, 
that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did 
see corruption 

This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are wit- 
nesseS.—ACTS 2: 14, 29, 30, 31, 32. 


No man can come to me, except the Father which hath 
sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last 
day. 

It 1s written in the prophets, And they shall be all 
taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, 
and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. 

Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which 
is of God, he hath seen the Father. 

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me 
hath everlasting life. 

I am that bread of life. 

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are 
dead. 

This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, 
that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: 


HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST IOI 


if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: 
and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I 
will give for the life of the world——JOHN 6: 44-51. 


Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born 
of God: and every one that loveth him that begat 
loveth him also that is begotten of him. 

By this we know that we love the children of God, when 
we love God, and keep his commandments. 

For this is the love of God, that we keep his command- 
ments: and his commandments are not grievous. 
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: 
and this is the victory that overcometh the world, 

even our faith— I JOHN 5: I, 2, 3, 4. 


It was by believing in the Lord that Abraham re- 
ceived credit for righteousness. 


And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of 
God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel._— 
MARK I: IS. 


And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him 
for righteousness ——GENESIS I5: 6. 


Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father 
in me; or else believe me for the very work’s sake.— 
JOHN 14: II. 


We now quote again from Schechter’s “Studies 
in Judaism”: 


“For our purpose,” he says, “it is of no great conse- 
quence to examine what future the prophets had in 
view, whether an immediate future or one more remote, 


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at the end of days. At any rate, they inculcated hope 
and confidence that God would bring to pass a better 
time. I think that even the most advanced Bible critic 
—provided he is not guided by some Aryan reasons— 
must perceive in such passages as “The Lord shall reign 
for ever and ever,’ ‘The Lord shall rejoice in his works,’ 
and many others, a_hope for more than the establish- 
ment of the ‘national Deity among his votaries in Pales- 
tine.’ ” 


PROPHECIES 


From such authority we welcome the above state- 
ment as favourable to our purpose for bringing to 
mind the expression “Jesus Christ and Him Cruci- 
fied” as set forth in the Bible. 

If we fail to examine the future the prophets 
had in view, we would fail the commands of God 
and a great part of that which has made the Bible 
sacred to mankind, “believed on in the world,” and 
the book most majestic in language and spirit that 
the world has known, or will be likely ever to have 
in its possession. 

The great importance of the prophets of the 
Old and the New Testaments, both for the time in 
which they prophesied, and the future they prophe- 
sied of, makes it necessary that their present or 
future time of realisation be indicated as far as 
may be. It should be done in order to justify that 
which is correctly stated: “They inculcated hope 
and confidence that God would bring to pass a 
better time.” 


HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST 103 


Moses said: 


The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet 
from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; 
unto him ye shall hearken; 

According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy 
God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let 
me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, 
neither let me see this great fire any more, that 
I die not. 

And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken 
that which they have spoken. 

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their breth- 
ren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his 
mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall 
command him. 

And it shall come to pass, that whosever will not hearken 
unto my words, which he shall speak in my name, I 
will require it of him. 

But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word 
in my name, which I have not commanded him to 
speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, 
even that prophet shall die. 

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the 
word which the Lord hath not spoken? 

When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if 
the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the 
thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the 
prophet has spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not 
be afraid of hinm.—DEUTERONOMY 18: 15-22. 


If the Scriptures are diligently searched as com- 
manded by Christ and by Moses and the Prophets, 
as to prophecies of the present when made, or of 
the future, we believe many of our Jewish people 


104 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


would find their Messiah and Eternal Life through 
the grace that is in Jesus Christ who said: 


Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, 
and I will give you rest. 

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am 
meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto 
your souls. 

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.— 
MATTHEW IT: 28, 29, 30. 


JACOB CHANGED TO ISRAEL 


Having passed from the above Scripture and 
comment, the writer finds himself in deep accord 
with the scholar “Schechter” in his further state- 
ment, namely—‘“‘must perceive in such passages 
as,’—The Lord shall reign for-ever and ever— 
The Lord shall rejoice in His works,—and a hope 
for more than the establishment of the ‘National 
Deity among his votaries in Palestine.” 

The Deity of the Hebrew as understood by the 
race, for the most part is a Deity without Jesus 
Christ. But contrary to the understanding that 
there is but one nation which may claim the 
promise made to “Israel,” we must show God’s 
declaration to the contrary. 


Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have 
eternal life: and they are they which testify of me— 


JOHN 5: 39. 


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By this searching we find that God changed the 
name of Jacob to that of Israel, saying to Jacob: 
“Thy name shall not any more be called Jacob but 
Israel shall be thy name. A nation and a company 
of nations shall be of thee and kings shall come 
out of thy loins.” And the land which was given to 
Abraham and Isaac is now given to Israel, of whom 
was to be a company of nations. Let us now learn 
from Scripture that it was as a man, even the word 
that “was God,” the Christ, who wrestled with 
Jacob at Beth-el when he fled from Esau. 


And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man 
with him until the breaking of the day... . 

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I 
have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 
—GENESIS 32: 24, 30. 


And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and 
dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that 
appeared unto thee when thou fledest from the face 
of Esau thy brother—GENESIS 35: I. 


And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out 
of Padanaram, and blessed him. 

And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name 
shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall 
be thy name: and he called his name Israel. 

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruit- 
ful and multiply; a nation and a company of na- 
tions shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy 
loins: 

And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee 


106 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give 
the land. 

And God went up from him in the place where he talked 
with him. 

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked 
with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a 
drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. 

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake 
with him, Beth-el—GENESIS 35: 9-15. 


And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, 
saying, 

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou 
shalt be a father of many nations. 

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but 
thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many 
nations have I made thee. 

And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make 
nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee 
and thy seed after thee in their generations for an 
everlasting covenant, to be a God unio thee, and to 
thy seed after thee. 

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, 
the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of 
Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be 
their God.—GENESIS 17: 3-8. 


THE PROMISE TO CHRIST 


Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. 
He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of 
one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. 

And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed 
before of God in Christ, the law, which was four 


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hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, 
that it should make the promise of none effect. 

For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of 
promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.— 
GALATIANS 3: 16, 17, 18. 


In the seed of Abraham all the nations of the 
earth were to be blessed. 


And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham oui of 
heaven the second time, 

And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for 
because thou hast done this thing, and hast not with- 
held thy son, thine only son: 

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I 
will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and 
as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed 
shall possess the gate of his enemies; 

And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be 
blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.— 
GENESIS 22: 15-18. 


In the blessing of Jacob (whose name God made 
to be Israel) ‘“The Shepherd, the Stone of Israel” 
is mentioned as coming from God, even by the God 
of Jacob. 


My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of things 
which I have made touching the king: my tongue ts 
the pen of a ready writer. 

Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is 
poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed 
thee for ever. 

Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with 
thy glory and thy majesty... . 


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Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: 
therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the 
oil of gladness above thy fellows... . 

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine 
ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s 
house; 

So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy 
Lord; and worship thou him... . 

The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing 
is of wrought gold——PSALM 45: I, 2, 3, 7, 10, II, 13. 


And after these things I heard a great voice of much 
people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and 
glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our 
Gort. 

Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for 
the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife 
hath made herself ready. 

And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in 
fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the 
righteousness of saints. 

And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which 
are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. 
And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of 
God. 

And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto 
me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and 
of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: 
worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit 
of prophecy—REVELATION IQ: I, 7, 8, 9, IO. 


Israel needs this Shepherd, for like all mankind, 
they have failed to obey all of God’s commands. 


And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the 
land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and 


HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST 109 


with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, 
and with great terror: 

And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear 
to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk 
and honey; 

And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed 
not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have 
done nothing of all that thou commandest them to 
do: therefore thou hast caused ali this evil to come 
upon them.—JEREMIAH 32: 21, 22, 23. 


I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God for- 
bid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abra- 
ham, of the tribe of Benjamin. .. . 

Even so than at this present time also there is a rem- 
nant according to the election of grace. 

And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise 
grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then 
is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more 
work. 

What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he 
seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and 
the rest were blinded... . 

I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? 
God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation 
is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to 
jealousy. . 

For if the estes be holy, the lump is also holy: and 
if the root be holy, so are the branches. 

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, 
being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, 
and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the 
olive tree—ROMANS II: I, 5, 6, 7, 11, 16, 17. 


Thus we find by the Bible that Israel is now 
with many nations of people, in need of more than 


IIO THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


the establishment of a “Jewish” National Deity in 
the land of Israel. 


ZION’S KING 


When we mention or think of the word Zion, 
there springs into mind much of the beauty of form 
and language that Holy Scripture is made up of: 


Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 
I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, 
Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine 
inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for 
thy possession. 

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt 
dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. 

Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye 
judges of the earth. 

Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with irembling. 

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the 
way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed 
are all they that put their trust in him—PsaLm 
2: 6-12. 


And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all 
nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught 
up unto God, and to his throne.—REVELATION 12: 5. * 


But that which ye have already hold fast till I 
COME ahs 

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto 
the end, to him will I give power over the nations: 

And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels 


HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST III 


of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as 
I received of my Father.—REVELATION 2: 25, 26, 27. 


Who is the King of Glory? 


And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor 
asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? 
And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest. 

And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS 
IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.—MATTHEW 27: II, 


37: 


Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom 
I have chosen: 

Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee 
from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O 
Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurum, whom I have 
chosen. 

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and 
floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my Spirit 
upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: 

And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows 
by the water courses. 

One shall say, I am the Lord’s; and another shall call 
himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall sub- 
scribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname 
himself by the name of Israel. 

Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his re- 
deemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am 
the last; and beside me there is no God. 

And who, as I, shall call, and shali declare it, and set 
it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient 
people? and the things that are coming, and shall 
come, let them shew unto them. 

Fear ye not, neither be afraid; have not I told thee 
from that time, and have declared it? ye are even 


II2 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


my witnesses. Is there a God beside me, yea, there ts 
no God; I know not any.—ISAtaH 44: 1-8. 


Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lijt up, ye 
everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come 
in. 

Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and 
mighty, the Lord mighty in battle... . 

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye 
everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come 
in. 

Who is this King of glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the 
King of glory.—PSALM 24: 7, 8, 9, 10. 


The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth 
King for ever. 

The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord 
will bless his people with peace—PSALM 29: 10, II. 


O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with 
the voice of triumph. 

For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King 
over all the earth. 

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency 
of Jacob whom he loved. ... 

The princes of the people are gathered together, even 
the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of 
the earth belong unto God; he 1s greatly exalted — 
PSALM 47, £02) 4, 0. 


Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise 
unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall 
reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and 
justice in the earth. 

In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell 
safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, 
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.—JEREMIAH 23: 5, 6. 


HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST 113 


We learn from Scripture who the King is. Can 
we tell when He is to come? 


But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, 
even Christ; and all ye are brethren. 

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one ts 
your Father, which is in heaven. 

Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, 
even Christ. 

But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. 
—MATTHEW 23: 8, 9, 10, II. 


Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou 
art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel. 

Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto 
thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? 
thou shalt see greater things than these. 

And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, 
Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of 
God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. 
—JOHN I: 49, 50, 51. 


When they therefore were come together, they asked of 
him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again 
the kingdom to Israel? 

And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the 
times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his 
own power. 

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost 
is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me 
both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, 
and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 

And when he had spoken these things, while they be- 
held, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out 
of their sight—Acts 1: 6-9. 


II4 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


And there came unto me one of the seven angels which 
had the seven vials full of the last seven plagues, and 
talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew 
thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. 

And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high 
mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy 
Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.— 
REVELATION 21: 9, 10. 


And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with 
me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the 
first and the last.—REVELATION 22: 12, 13. 


V 
LAW AND GRACE 


T is the writer’s purpose to adhere to the title 
to this book for the subject matter quoted as 
Biblical authority, that is, to the Bible known 

as it is to the author and that portion (the Old 
Testament) known as such or as the Torah (Law) 
of the Hebrews. 

To the Jews’ Sacred Writings which they claim 
to be the Oral or Spoken Law given by God to 
Moses, we make reference. We quote only fronr 
the author Schechter, as being sufficient for the 
comment we make thereon: 


Bui Christ being come an high priest of good things 
to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, 
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this 
building ; 

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his 
own blood he entered in once into the holy place, 
having obtained eternal redemption for us. 

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes 
of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the 
purifying of the flesh: 

How, much more shall the blood of Christ, who through 
tne eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to 
God, purge your conscience from dead works to 
serve the living God?—-HEBREWS 9: II, 12, 13, I4. 

115 


116 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


For the law having a shadow of good things to come, 
and not the very image of the things, can never with 
those sacrifices which they offered year by year con- 
tinually make the comers thereunto perfect. 

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? 
because that the worshippers once purged should have 
had no more conscience of sins, 

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again 
made of sins every year. 

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of 
goats should take away sins. 

Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, 
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body 
hast thou prepared me.—HEBREWS I0: I, 2, 3, 4, 5- 


To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto 
me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings 
of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not 
in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 
—ISAIAH I: II. 


The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called 
the earth, from the rising of the sun unto the going 
down thereof. 

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. 

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire 
shall devour before him, and it shall be very tem- 
pestuous round about him. 

He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the 
earth, that he may judge his people. 

Gather my saints together unio me; those that have 
made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for 
God is judge himself. Selah. 

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I 
will testify against thee: I am God even thy God. 


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I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt 
offerings, to have been continually before me. 

I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out 
of thy folds. 

For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle 
upon a thousand hills —PsAM 50: I-Io. 


Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: 
let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, 
and all things that come forth of it.... 

And all the host of heaven, shall be dissolved, and the 
heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all 
their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from 
the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. 

For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the 
year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.— 
ISAIAH 34: I, 4, 8. 


Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doc- 
trine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in 
the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and 
the Son—IlI JouN 9. 


JEWISH SYNAGOGUE DOCTRINE 


The following from the introduction in Schech- 
ter’s “Studies in Judaism” gives a summary of 
Jewish Synagogue Doctrine as Schechter intro- 
duces them to the readers of his book. 


“Tt is not the mere revealed Bible that is of first im- 
portance to the Jew, but the Bible as it repeats itself in 
history, in other words as it is interpreted by Tradition. 
The Talmud, that wonderful mine of religious ideas 
from which it would be just as easy to draw up a man- 


118 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


ual for the most orthodox as to extract a vade mecum 
for the most sceptical, lends some countenance to this 
view by certain controversial passages—not to be taken 
seriously—in which ‘the words of the scribes’ are placed 
almost above the words of the Torah. Since then the 
interpretation of Scripture or the Secondary Meaning 
is mainly a product of changing historical influences, it 
follows that the centre of authority is actually removed 
from the Bible and placed in some living body, which, 
by reason of its being in touch with the ideal aspirations 
and the religious needs of the age, is best able to de- 
termine the nature of the Secondary Meaning. 

“The Synagogue with its long, continuous cry after 
God for more than twenty-three centuries, with its un- 
remittent activity, in teaching and developing the word 
of God, with its uninterrupted succession of prophets, 
Psalmists, Scribes, Assideans, Rabbis, Patriarchs, In- 
terpreters, Elucidators, Eminences, and Teachers, with 
its glorious record of Saints, martyrs, sages, philos- 
ophers, scholars, and mystics; this Synagogue, the only 
true witness to the past, and forming in all ages the 
sublimest expression of Israel’s religious life, must also 
retain its authority as the sole true guide for the pres- 
ent and the future. And being in communion with this 
Synagogue, we may also look hopefully for a safe and 
rational solution of our present theological troubles. 

“We may, therefore, safely trust that the Synagogue 
will again assert its divine right in passing judgment 
upon the Bible when it feels called upon to exercise that 
holy office. It is ‘God who has chosen the Torah, and 
Moses His servant, and Israel His people.’ But indeed 
God’s choice invariably coincides with the wishes of 
Israel; He ‘performeth all things’ upon which the 
councils of Israel, meeting under the promise of the 
Divine presence and communion, have previously agreed. 
As the Talmud somewhere expresses itself with regard 


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to the Book of Esther, ‘They have confirmed above 
what Israel has accepted below.’ 

“Another consequence of this conception of Tradition 
is that it is neither Scripture nor primitive Judaism, 
but general custom which forms the real rule of practice. 
Holy Writ as well as history, Zunz tells us, teaches that 
the law of Moses was never fully and absolutely put in 
practice. Liberty was always given to the great teach- 
ers of every generation to make modifications and in- 
novations in harmony with the spirit of existing insti- 
tutions. Hence a return to Mosaism would be illegal, 
pernicious, and indeed impossible. The norm as well 
as the sanction of Judaism is the practice actually in 
vogue. Its consecration is the consecration of general 
use,—or, in other words, of Catholic Israel.” 


Should not the revealed Bible that repeats itself 
in history be of first importance to the Jew or to 
any people who hold it sacred as being the written 
word of God? 


Thy testimonies also are my delight and my coun- 
sellors. 

My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me ac- 
cording to thy word... . 

Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall 
keep it unto the end.—PSALM I10: 24, 25, 33. 


Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, 
and he shall presently give me more than twelve 
legions of angels? 

But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus 
it must be?—MATTHEW 26: 53, 54. 


The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the 
Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto 


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the meck; he hath sent me to bind up the broken- 
hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the 
opening of the prison to them that are bound.— 
ISAIAH 61: I. 


And he began to say unto them, This day is the scrip- 
ture fulfilled in your ears. 

And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious 
words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they 
said, Is not this Joseph’s son?—-LUKE 4: 21, 22. 


The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not 
turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon 
thy throne-—PSALM 132: II. 


Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that 
they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which 
brought up the children of Israel out of the land of 
Egypt ; 

But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led 
the seed of the house of Israel out of the north coun- 
try, and from all countries whither I had driven them; 
and they shall dwell in their own land—JEREMIAH 
re ons Ra 


But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little 
among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall 
he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; 
whose goings forth have been from of old, from ever- 
lasting —MIcAH 5: 2. 


Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall 
Christ come out of Galilee? 

Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the 
seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, 
where David was?—JOHN 7: 4I, 42. 


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Christ never waited until history repeated the 
Bible before He considered it of first importance. 


But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not 
live by bread alone, but by every word that pro- 
ceedeth out of the mouth of God... . 

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not 
tempt the Lord thy God. ... 

Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan; for 
it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, 
and him only shalt thou serve-—MATTHEW 4: 4, 7, 
IO. 


Besides these references made by the Saviour, 
there are very many more made by the Prophets 
and Apostles in Holy Scripture, that they made to 
be of first importance without waiting for the his- 
tory to follow it. All the Prophets must of neces- 
sity have done so. And we have failed to find an 
instance in Scripture where tradition is resorted 
to in order to verify the Written Word, as being the 
Word of God. 

Considering that God by His Written Word is 
witness with His only Begotten Son and by the 
Holy Ghost that the Holy Scripture is to stand, 
should we not believe it? 


And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that 
which they have spoken. 

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their 
brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in 
his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I 
shall command him, 


122 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not 
hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my 
name, I will require it of hkim-—DEUTERONOMY 
18*\17, 18, 10: 


Shall we not then deny the assertion given in the 
quotation from “Studies in Judaism” to the effect 
that “the centre of authority is removed from the 
Bible and placed in some living authority”? It is 
the Bible that reveals and is a living witness of the 
truth Christ fulfils. 


Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the 
prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, 
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the 

law, til all be fulfilled —MatTTHEW 5: 17, 18. 


Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the 
elders? for they wash not thei hands when they 
eat bread. 

But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also 
trangress the commandment of God by your tradi- 
tion?—MATTHEW IS: 2, 3. 


And Moses came and told the people all the words of 
the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people 
answered with one voice, and said, All the words 
which the Lord hath said will we do. 

And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up 
early in the morning, and builded an altar under the 
hull, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes 
OP MSTAEL AN ial s 

And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the 
audience of the people: and they said, All that the 
Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient. 


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And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the 
people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, 
which the Lord hath made with you concerning all 
these words.—EXODUS 24: 3, 4, 7, 8. 


If thus we learn that Moses wrote all the words 
of the Lord, was it not that there should be left 
as first authority an immovable Written Word of 
the Lord that could never be changed by the tradi- 
tions of men? 

The Covenant was made with the children of 
Israel and written. Should Israel ever give their 
consent to the removal of the written Covenant of 
God to the “Needs of the Age,” as needs are con- 
ceived by fallible man? 


But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not 
live by bread alone, but by every word that pro- 
ceedeth out of the mouth of God—MATTHEW 4: 4. 


The Lord commanded the prophet Jeremiah to 
write in a Book all the words He had spoken unto 
him, evidently intending that Israel should read the 
words when they returned to the land the Lord 
had given to their fathers. 


The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 

Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write 
thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a 
book.—JEREMIAH 30:1, 2. 


There is no reason why the written word from 
God to Jeremiah should be removed from the Bible. 


124 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


Even when Jehoiakim, the King, had burned Jere- 
miah’s and Baruch’s writings of the Lord’s words, 
the Lord commanded Jeremiah to write them over 
again, which he did by Baruch. 

It is evident that the written word of God was 
to abide, and under God’s care will abide. 


And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by 
night, and said unio him, Take heed that thou speak 
not to Jacob either good or bad. 

Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched 
his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren 
pitched in the mount of Gilead. 

And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that 
thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried 
away my daughters, as captives taken with the 
sword? 

Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away 
from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have 
sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with 
tabret, and with harp? 

And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daugh- 
ters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. 

It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the 
God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, 
Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either 
good or bad. 

And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because 
thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet 
wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?—GENESIS 31: 
24-30. 


So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took 
it out of Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi 


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vead it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of 
all the princes which stood beside the king. 

Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth 
month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning 
before him. 

And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three 
or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast 
it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the 
roll was consumed in the fire that was on the 
Ch ae 

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after that 
the king had burned the roll, and the words which 
Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, 

Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the 
former words that were in the first roll, which 
Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.—JEre- 
MiAd, 36512 1,/225-225.27 (28. 


In Nehemiah, the eighth chapter, it is the Book 
of the “Law of Moses which the Lord had com- 
manded to Israel” that is mentioned. No oral law 
is referred to: 


And all the people gathered themselves together as one 
man into the street that was before the water gate; 
and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book 
of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded 
to Israel. 

And he read therein before the street that was before 
the water gate from the morning until midday, be- 
fore the men and the women, and those that could 
understand; and the ears of all the people were 
attentive unto the book of the law—NEHEMIAH 
he ae & 


126 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of 
writing the words of this law in a book, until they 
were finished. 

That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the 
ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, 

Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the 
ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it 
may be there for a witness against thee. 

For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, 
while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been 
rebellious against the Lord; and how much more 
after my death? 

Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your 
officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, 
and call heaven and earth to record against them. 

For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt 
yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have 
commanded you; and evil will befall you in the 
latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of 
the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work 
of your hands. 

And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of 
Israel the words of this song, until they were ended. 
—DEUTERONOMY 31: 24-30. 


Words spoken by our Saviour were ordained by 
Christ to become written words of the New Testa- 
ment. The wonderful work of bringing the written 
word about was given to the Holy Spirit,—man 
should not remove their authority. 

Here is the authority: 


These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present 
with you. 
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the 


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Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all 
things, and bring all things to your remembrance, 
whatsoever, I have said unto you.u—JOHN 14: 25, 26. 


In the quotation from “Studies in Judaism” we 
note this portion: 


“This living body, however, is not represented by any 
section of the Nation, or any corporate Priesthood, or 
Rabbihood, but by the collective conscience of Catholic 
Israel, as embodied in the universal Synagogue. The 
Synagogue ‘with its long, continuous cry after God for 
more than twenty-three centuries,’ with its unremittent 
activity in teaching and developing the word of God, 
with its uninterrupted succession of prophets, Psalmists, 
Scribes, Assideans, Rabbis, Patriarchs, Interpreters, 
Elucidators, Eminences, and Teachers, with its glorious 
record of Saints, martyrs, sages, philosophers, scholars, 
and mystics; this Synagogue, the only true witness to 
the past, and forming in all ages the sublimest expres- 
sion of Israel’s religious life, must also retain its author- 
ity as the sole true guide for the present and the future. 
And being in communion with this Synagogue, we may 
also look hopefully for a safe and rational solution of 
our present theological troubles.” 


Such plain statements from a Jewish scholar in 
the name of the Synagogue to which he adheres, 
should strike sympathetic chords in the breast of 
all who have experienced a “continuous cry after 
God.” Acry that has likewise been an experience 
of every believer in Jesus Christ until He was 
found of them by the grace of Him who gave Him- 
self for them. 


128 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


FROM A DISTINGUISHED RABBI 


This confession by the author of “Studies in 
Judaism” brings to mind a somewhat similar state- 
ment made by the distinguished lecturer known so 
generally, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York, in 
an address given in the Second Presbyterian Church 
of Amsterdam, New York, January 10, 1925. The 
similarity referred to is to the “Searching towards 
God.” We quote from the “Amsterdam Evening 
Record” of January I0, 1925: 


“The beginning of the Christian Era is a milestone 
about midway between the beginning of Israel and the 
present. It is difficult to define a faith which began 
four thousand years ago and still comprises a group of 
vital believers, for within a period of four thousand 
years religious views and aspirations change. We have 
our Modernists and our Fundamentalists, and our 
problem parallels your own. 

“Speaking of the Bible, the Rabbi urged that the 
tendency to regard it as a book should be overcome. 
It is a literature—a library comprised between two 
covers. The oldest antedates by one thousand years 
the latest. Everything within this literature of the 
Bible is the story of a people who for two thousand 
years from Abraham to the Maccabees were always 
searching towards God. 

“This literature is animated by a master-purpose, the 
faith of Israel as a growing vital thing. This faith, con- 
tinued Rabbi Wise, is not always the same. My own 
faith is in some respects like that of Abraham, in others 
unlike,—I am moving with my people. I honour my 
Father’s memory, not by standing where he stood but 


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by pilgriming on as he would have done had he lived, 
even as he did while he lived. The Jew has builded and 
will build upon his faith as a living, growing, pulsing 
thing.” 


JEWISH SEARCHING TOWARD GOD 


The main purpose of the writer in quoting from 
the lecture of Rabbi Wise, is to draw attention 
to a portion of his address, that portion which 
coupled with the equally remarkable quotation 
from the scholar Schechter, brings according to ex- 
cellent Jewish authority, the Jews into some ac- 
cord with Christianity, namely: 

From Schechter: 


“The Synagogue with its long continued cry after God 
for more than twenty-three centuries.” 


From Rabbi Wise: 


“This literature of the Bible is the story of a people 
who for two thousand years from Abraham to the 
Maccabees were always inflexibly searching towards 
God.” 


There remains the great difference between the 
Jewish search and the hunger and thirst of the 
Christian, in that the latter believe they have found 
God in Jesus Christ: 


Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after right- 
eousness: for they shall be filled—MATTHEW 5: 6. 


130 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


Yet Christians do not wish the beginning of 
their faith to remain hidden, so the writer feels 
constrained to refer to it. Instead of the “Chris- 
tian Era” beginning as “a mile stone about mid- 
way between Israel and the present,”’ according to 
Rabbi Wise, it began with the Christ, the Chief 
Corner Stone, which was rejected by the builders 
and is laid in Zion. 


Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, 
I lay in Sion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious: 
and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. 

Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but 
unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the 
builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the 
COPKET ee 

For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your 
faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do 
well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is 
acceptable with God. 

For even hereunto were ye called; because Christ also 
suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should 
follow his steps—I PETER 2: 6, 7, 20, 21. 


Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in 
Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious 
corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth 
shall not make haste—IsataH 28: 16. 


But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his 
hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty 
God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the 
stone of Israel: ) 

Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; 


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and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with 
blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that 
lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the 
womb.—GENESIS 49: 24, 25. 


“Tn the beginning” is the beginning of Creation, 
when the Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost 
said: “Let us make man in our image.” 

Believers in Christ were chosen before the foun- 
dation of the world. 


According as he hath chosen us in him before the founda- 
tion of the world, that we should be holy and without 
blame before him in love: 

Having predestinated us unio the adoption of children 
by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good 
pleasure of his will—EPHESIANS I: 4, 5. 


For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither 
is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 

But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circum- 
cision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in 
the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.— 
ROMANS 2: 28, 29. 


What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is 
there of circumcision? 

Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were 
committed the oracles of God. 

For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief 
make the faith of God without effect?—RoMANS 
3: 1, 2, 3. 


The seed of the woman was to bruise the ser- 


132 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


pent’s head. Here Christ Jesus the Lamb, the 
Head of the Church, is also manifest: 


But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than 
the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with 
glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should 
taste death for every man. 

For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified 
are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to 
call them brethren. 

Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in 
the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. 

And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, 
Behold, I and the children which God hath given me. 

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh 
and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the 
same; that through death he might destroy him that 
had power of death, that is, the devil—HEBREWS 
A O/T T2712, :14,. Also PSALMS 2221220 95% 


Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple 
of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will 
write upon him the name of my God, and the name 
of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which 
cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will 
write upon him my new name. 

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith 
unto the churches.—REVELATION 3: 12, 13. 


And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and 
between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy 
head, and thou shalt bruise his heel_—GrENESIS 3: 15. 


In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful 
and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be ex- 


LAW AND GRACE 133 


cellent and comely, for them thai are escaped of 
Israel. 

And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, 
and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called 
holy, even every one that is written among the living 
in Jerusalem. ... 

And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the 
daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and 
for a covert from storm and from rain.—ISAIAH 4: 2, 


ae. 


And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet 
_ Shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with 
you. Amen.—ROMANS 16: 20. 


The head of the Christian Church, Jesus Christ, 
we believe was He whom Scripture calls ‘The 
Angel of the Lord” when relating His commands to 
Balaam. 


And God came unto Balaam ait night, and said unto 
him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go 
with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto 
thee, that shalt thou do. ... 

And God’s anger was kindled because he went: and the 
angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary 
against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his 
two servants were with him. . . 

And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she 
said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that 
thou hast smitten me these three times? ... 

And the angel of the Lord said unio Balaam, Go with 
the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto 
thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with 
the princes of Balak.—NUMBERS 22: 20, 22, 28, 35. 


134 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, 
nor bless them at all. 

But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I 
thee, saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that I must 
do?—-NUMBERS 23: 25, 26. 


The Head of the Christian Church spoke also to 
Joshua and informed him as He did Moses in the 
bush that the place whereon he stood was holy 
ground. 


And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that 
he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there 
stood a man over against him with his sword drawn 
in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said 
unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? 

And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the 
Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face 
to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, 
What saith my Lord unto his servant, 

And the captain of the Lord’s host said unto Joshua, 
Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place 
whereon thou standest is holy. And Joskua did so. 
—JOSHUA 5: 13, 14, 15. 


And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into 
thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the 
mighty men of valour.-—JOSHUA 6: 2. 


Immediately after man was created we have in 
Scripture the name of God as The Lord, and Lord 
God—not before that event. 

From the address of Rabbi Wise we again are 
informed that: “It is difficult to define a Faith 


LAW AND GRACE 135 


which began four thousand years ago and still 
comprises a group of vital believers, for within a 
period of four thousand years religious views and 
aspirations change.” 

Honourable as may be the faith and personage of 
changing Israel, does not the situation warrant the 
question: Is Israel’s present faith of the Synagogue, 
the faith of Abraham that was accounted unto him 
for righteousness? We do not find it to be the 
faith mentioned in the Bible. 

Is this the song that is now being sung in Pales- 
tine? 


In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; 
We have a strong city: salvation will God appoint 
for walls and bulwarks. 

Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which 
keepeth the truth may enter in. 

Thou shalt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is 
stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. 

Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH 
is everlasting strength. ... 

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body 
shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in 
dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the 
earth shall cast out the dead. 

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and 
shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for 
a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 

For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish 
the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the 
earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more 
cover her slain.—IsAIAH 26: I, 2, 3, 4, 19, 20, 21. 


136 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


Does the faith of the centurion in Jesus when 
He healed at Capernaum now exist in the Syna- 
goguer 


And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there 
came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 

And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of 
the palsy, grievously tormented. 

And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. 

The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not 
worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: 
but speak the word only, and my servant shall be 
healed. 

For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under 
me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to 
another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, 
Do this, and he doeth it. 

When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them 
that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found 
so great faith, no, not in Israel. 

And I say unto you, That many shall come from the 
east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, 
and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. 

But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into 
outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing 
of teeth. 

And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and 
as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And 
his servant was healed in the selfsame hour —Mat- 
THEW 8: 5-13. 


It is the Christian Era that gave birth to the 
covenant of Faith. Before, in the Old Testament, 
there existed the covenant of Works under the 
law. 


LAW AND GRACE 137 


For ail the prophets and the law prophesied until John. 
—MAtTTHEW ITI: 13. 


The word “Faith” occurs only once, I believe, in 
the Old Testament, authorized version, and that in- 
stance not confirming Faith as exercised by Israel. 
Where it occurs in the New Testament when used 
in connection as a saving power, it is always as a 
trusting quality in God. 


Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us 
together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved.)— 
EPHESIANS 2: 5. 


Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the 
end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to 
that only which is of the law, but to that also which 
is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us 
all— ROMANS 4: 16. 


FROM “STUDIES IN JUDAISM”’ 


“But when Revelation or the Written Word is re- 
duced to the level of history, there is no difficulty in 
elevating history in its aspect of Tradition to the rank 
of Scripture, for both have then the same human or 
divine origin (according to the student’s predilection 
for the one or the other adjective), and emanate from 
the same authority. Tradition becomes thus the means 
whereby the modern divine seeks to compensate him- 
self for the loss of the Bible, and the theological balance 
is to the satisfaction of all parties happily readjusted. 

“Jewish Tradition, or, as it is commonly called, the 
Oral Law, or, as we may term it (in consideration of 


138 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


its claims to represent an interpretation of the Bible), 
the Secondary Meaning of the Scriptures, is mainly em- 
bodied in the works of the Rabbis and their subsequent 
followers during the Middle Ages. Hence the zeal and 
energy with which the historical school applied itself 
to the Jewish post-Biblical literature, not only eluci- 
dating its texts by means of new critical editions, dic- 
tionaries, and commentaries, but also trying to trace its 
origins and to pursue its history through its gradual de- 
velopment.” 


The learned author of “Studies of Judaism” 
from which we quote, considers that there is no 
difficulty in elevating history in its aspect of Tra- 
dition to the rank of Scripture, when Revelation or 
the Written Word is reduced to the level of his- 
tory. 

This is equivalent to saying when the authority 
of Scripture given by inspiration of God is reduced 
to the level of history, there is no difficulty in ele- 
vating history in its aspect of Tradition to the 
rank of Scripture. 

But may we not state that such a comparison 
could only be made when Revelation or the Written 
Word was so reduced. And when did it ever 
happen that the Written Word was ever so re- 
duced seeing that all Scripture is by inspiration of 
God,—or who, except God, could raise the Tradi- 
tions or word of man to the written word of God. 


And that from a child thou hast known the holy scrip- 
tures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation 
through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 


LAW AND GRACE 139 


All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profit- 
able for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for 
instruction in righteousness: 

That the man of God may be perfect, throughly fur- 
nished unto all good works —Il TiMotTHy 3: 15-17. 


BALAAM’S PROPHECY 


By the word of God, Scripture states that 
Balaam made the following prophecy. Showing 
Israel should dwell alone and not be among the 
nations for a time. 


And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, 
Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. 

And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his 
burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab. 

And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king 
of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the 
mouniains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, 
and come, defy Israel. 

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how 
shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied? 

For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the 
hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, 
and shall not be reckoned among the nations. 

Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of 
the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of 
the righteous, and let my last end be like his!— 
NUMBERS 23: 5-10. 


He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion; 
who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth 
thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee... . 

And now, behold, I go unto my people: come there- 


140 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


fore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall 
do to thy people in the latter days. 

And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son 
of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open 
hath said: 

He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew 
the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision 
of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his 
eyes open: 

I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not 
nigh; there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a 
Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the 
corners of Moab and destroy all the children of Sheth. 
~—NUMBERS 24: 9, 14, 15, 16, 17. 


VI 


JACOB’S PROPHECY CONCERNING 
SHILOH 


ND Jacob called unio his sons, and said, Gather 

A yourselves together, that I may tell you that 

which shall befall you in the last days. 

Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; 
and hearken unto Israel your father... . 

Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou 
art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, 
and as an old lion: who shall rouse him up? 

The scepire shall not depart from Judah, nor a law- 
giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and 
unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 

Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto 
the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and 
his clothes in the blood of grapes: 

His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white 
with milk.—GENESIS 49: I, 2,9, 10, II, 12. 


The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 

Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim 
there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, 
all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship 
hEwVLOrdaoe:. 

Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land 
that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.— 
JEREMIAH 7: 1, 2, 7. 


Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall 
see him, and they also which pierced him: and all 
I4I 


142 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even 
so, Amen. 

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, 
saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which 
és to come, the Almighty.—REVELATION I: 7, 8. 


It is plain to the believer in Jesus Christ that 
the above contains prophecies of His coming to 
earth again. 

We find that Jesus Christ did not recognise Jew- 
ish tradition as the Scripture or Word of God by 
mouth, and we do not find these traditions in the 
Old Testament. 


JEWISH TRADITION 


Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were 
of Jerusalem, saying. 

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the 
elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat 
bread. 

But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also 
transgress the commandment of God by your tradi- 
tion? 

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his 
mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be 
profited by me; 

And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be 
free, Thus have ye made the commandment of God of 
none effect by your tradition—MAtTTHEW I5: 1-6. 


Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doc- 
trines the commandments of men. 
For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the 


PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 143 


tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups; and 
many other such like things ye do. 

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the com- 
mandment of God, that ye may keep your own tra- 
ston... 

Making the word of God of none effect through your 
tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such 
like things do ye.—Mark 7: 7, 8, 9, 13. 


We quote from pages 16 and 17 from the In- 
troduction to Schechter’s “Studies in Judaism”’: 
Zunz, he states, was just as emphatic in asserting 
the claims of Tradition, as he was advanced in his 
views on Bible criticism. 


“Tsrael,” he says, “continues to consult God through 
the medium of the Scriptures, and He answers His 
people by the mouth of the Scribes, the Sages, the 
Interpreters of the Law; whilst the liturgy of the 
Synagogue, springing up at the time when Psalms were 
still being composed, expands in its later stages through 
the work of the Poets of the Synagogue into such a rich 
luxuriance.” 


But considering that the answer from God is 
here said to be given to His people by the mouth 
of the Scribes, may we not make reference to 
Scripture to find from that source the value then 
given to the work of the Scribes and to what they 
brought to God’s chosen people by word of mouth. 

It seems that in our Saviour’s time, the Scribes 
were honoured because of their being in Moses’ 
seat, and they had with them Moses’ law, but what . 


144 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


they bound their people with, were grievous bur- 
dens which they themselves failed to bear. 


Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 

Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ 
seat: 

All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that ob- 
serve and do; but do not ye after their works: for 
they say, and do not. 

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, 
and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they them- 
selves will not move them with one of their 
PNZETS Aas sc 

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! 
for ye shui up the kingdom of heaven against men: 
for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them 
that are entering to goin. ... 

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye 
pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have 
omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, 
mercy and faith: these ought ye to have done, and 
not to leave the other undone. 

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow 
a camel.— MATTHEW 23: I, 2, 3, 4, 13, 23, 24. 


The scribes and Pharisees in our Saviour’s time 
were faced by Him with arguments they could not 
answer regarding His Sonship. 


And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the 
temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of 
David? 

For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord 
said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I 
make thine enemies thy footstool. 


PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 145 


David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence 
is he then his son? And the common people heard 
him gladiy—MArk 12: 35, 36, 37. 


Jesus Christ is called to-day an honoured man 
and a credit to the race by Jews, and by Gentiles. 
Could He have been such if what He said of Him- 
self when He was asked if He was the Christ, had 
been untrue. 


And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and 
the chief priests and the scribes came together, and 
led him into their council, saying, 

Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, 
If I tell you, ye will not believe; 

And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me 
go. 

Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand 
of the power of God. 

Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? 
And he said unto them, Ye say that I am. 

And they said, What need we any further witness? for 
we ourselves have heard of his own mouth—LukeE 
22: 66-71. 


Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or 

_ the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, 
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the 
law, til all be fulfilled —MATTHEW 5: 17, 18. 


If not, no jot nor tittle was to pass from the 
law till all be fulfilled. How could the so-called 
Oral Law be justly considered on a footing with 
the written law of Moses by many Jews? 


146 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


The writer feels that it is proper that some of 
the said to be Oral Law of Moses should be here 
presented for consideration, as well as some asser- 
tions regarding such oral law and we present it as 
from Jewish authority. 

Quotation is here again made from ‘Studies in 
Judaism” by Schechter, (page 19, of the Intro- 
duction). 


“Tt was the veto of the Rabbis which excluded from 
the canon the works that now pass under the name of 
Apocrypha. We may, therefore, safely trust that the 
Synagogue will again assert its divine right in passing 
judgment upon the Bible when it feels called upon to 
exercise that holy office. It is ‘God who has chosen 
the Torah, and Moses His servant, and Israel His 
people.’ But indeed God’s choice invariably coincides 
with the wishes of Israel.” 


We deem it best here to insert portions from 
Moses’ Law (Torah) and from Isaiah which de- 
clares that atonement is needed by all men. 


And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that 
sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance 
before the Lord, to make an atonement for him; 
and it shall be forgiven him.——NUMBERS 15: 28. 


If Balak would give me his house full of silver and 
gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the 
Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; 
but what the Lord saith, that will I speak? —Num- 
BERS 24: I3. 


PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 147 


Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is 
stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee-—Isatau 
26353: 


It is not to the Synagogue that the promise is 
given that all their counsel will be fulfilled of God, 
but it is so given to the Anointed of God, the 
King, who is to be helped from the Sanctuary and 
strengthened out of Zion. 


The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of 
the God of Jacob defend thee. ... 

Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed: he will 
hear him from his holy. heaven with the saving 
strength of his right hand—PsaLM 20:1, 6. 


The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy 
salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! 

Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not 
withholden the request of his lips-—PSALM 21: 1, 2. 


Nevertheless ke saved them for his name’s sake, that 
he might make his mighty power to be known. 

They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his 
counsel.—PSALM 1006: 8, 13. 


THE LORD WILL GATHER ISRAEL ACCORDING 
TO HIS WORD 


It is the Lord, our God, who is to gather Israel, 
the Psalmist prays to that end. 


Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the 
heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to 
triumph in thy praise. 

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to 


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everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise 
ye the Lord.—PSAtM 106: 47, 48. 


Judah and Israel are cited separately, the one to 
be saved, the other to dwell safely. 


Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise 
unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall 
reign and prosper and shall execute judgment and 
justice in the earth. 

In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell 
safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, 
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. ... 

The anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have 
executed, and till he have performed the thoughts 
of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it 
perfectly.— JEREMIAH 23: 5, 6, 20. 


Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! 
when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his 
people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad. 
—PSALM I4: 7. 


And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them 
that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. 
—ISAIAH 59: 20. 


For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant 
of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own 
conceits ; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, 
until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 

And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There 
shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn 
away ungodiiness from Jacob; 

For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take 
away their sins. 

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your 


PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 149 


sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved 
for the fathers’ sakes. 

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. 
—ROMANS ITI: 25-29. 


It is God’s counsel we are to stand in for turning 
to Him, His Words we should hear. When Jere- 
miah prophesied, ,\God spake from afar. He said 
that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand, by the 
words of His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. He 
still speaks to Judah and Israel by Him and by His 
apostle Paul. And here is witnessing from the 
Cross, from Daniel, the Psalms and Isaiah. 


And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thy- 
self. 

And a superscription also was writien over him in letters 
of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING 
OF THE JEWS.—LUKE 23: 37, 38. 


And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing 
my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and pre- 
senting my supplication before the Lord my God for 
the holy mountain of my God; 

Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man 
Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the be- 
ginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about 
the time of the evening oblation. 

And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O 
Daniel, I am now, come forth to give thee skill and 
understanding DANIEL 9: 20, 21, 22. 


Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou 
wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear 
to hear.—PSALM 10: 17. 


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For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: 
and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and 
his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince 
of Peace—ISAIAH 9: 6. 


We again quote from “Studies in Judaism.” On 
page 13, we have the following: 


“All pursued that single study, the Torah. .. . For 
under the word Torah was comprised not only the Law, 
but also the contributions of later times expressing 
either the thoughts or the emotions of holy and sincere 
men; and even their honest scepticism was not entirely 
excluded.” 


As God alone is the best Judge of His own law, 
we must naturally exclude from the law and also 
from the prophets, all that the Scripture leaves un- 
authorised in comparing the Bible with Jewish 
Tenets. 

The “Studies” from which we have quoted, gives 
on page twelve, the following witnessing to the great 
value of the first tenets held by Israel as the Law, 
taken from a Hebrew hymn: 


Destroyed lies Zion and profaned, 
Of splendour and renown bereft, 
Her ancient glories wholly waned, 
One deathless treasure only left; 
Still ours, O Lord, 
Thy Holy Word. 


PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 151 


The deep respect here expressed for a “death- 
less Word,” a Word which is now living, is evidence 
to the truth of our Lord’s words, spoken to Jews. 


Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have 
eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 
And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life — 


JOHN 5: 39, 40. 


And in “Hebrews” its writer referring to the 
Prophets, says: | 


For the law having a shadow of good things to come, 
and not the very image of the things, can never with 
those sacrifices which they offered year by year con- 
tinually make the comers thereunto perfect... . 

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of 
goats should take away sins. 

Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, 
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body 
hast thou prepared me; 

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had 
no pleasure. 

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it 
is written of me) to do thy will, O God. 

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt 
offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, 
neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by 
the law; 

Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God, He 
taketh away the first, that he may establish the 
second. 

By the which will we are sanctified through the offering 


152 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


of the body of Jesus Christ once for all—HEBREWS 
10: I, 4-10. 


Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears 
hast thou opened; burnt offering and sin offering hast 
thou not required. 

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it 
is written of mé.—PSALM 40: 6, 7. 


I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much 
as in all riches. 

I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto 
thy ways. 

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget 
thy word.—PsALM 119: 14-16. 


THE CHRISTIAN HAS A PART IN ZION 


But in Zion the Jew and the Christian both have 
a part, a part in the future, if not now. For Christ 
the Son is King. 


Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion. 

I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, 
Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine 
inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth 

for thy possession—PSALM 2: 6, 7, 8. 


When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in 
his glory. 

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not 
despise their prayer. 

This shall be written for the generation to come: and 


PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 153 


the people which shall be created shall praise the 
Lord. 

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanc- 
tuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth— 
PSALM 102: 16-19. 


The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh 
at him, 

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; 
but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and 
strengthened himself in his wickedness—PsSaLM 
B20 107075 


And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let 
us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of 
the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, 
and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall 
go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from 
Jerusalem.—ISAIAH 2: 3. 


And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the 
midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto 
1 a ee 

And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an 
honeycomb. 

And he took it, and did eat before them. 

And he said unto them, These are the words which I 
spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all 
things must be fulfilled, which were written in the 
law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, 
concerning me. 

Then opened he their understanding, that they might 
understand the scriptures. 

And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it 
behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead 
the third day; 


134 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


And that repentance and remission of sins should be 
preached in his name among all nations, beginning 
at Jerusalem.—LUKE 24: 36, 42-47. 


Now, therefore hearken, O Israel, unio the statutes and 
unto the judgments, whick I teach you, for to do 
them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the 
land which the-Lord God of your fathers giveth 
VOU rs 

And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, 
and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, 
whither the Lord shall lead you. 

And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, 
wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, 
nor smell, 

But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, 
thou shalt find him, if thou seck him with all thy 
heart and with all thy soul. 

When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are 
come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn 
to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his 
voice; 

(For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not 
forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the 
covenant of thy fathers, which he sware unto them. 
—DEUTERONOMY 4: I, 27-31. 


The Jews will believe in the latter days; who 
will believe now? 


Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek 
the Lord their God, and David their king: and shail 
fear the Lord and his goodness in the laiter days.— 
HOSEA 3: 5. 


PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 155 


Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make 
a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with 
the house of Judah: 

Not according to the covenant that I made with their 
fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to 
bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my 
covenant they brake, although I was an husband 
unto them, saith the Lord: 

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with 
the house of Israel: After those days, saith the Lord, 
I will put my law in their inward parts, and write 
it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they 
shall be my people. 

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, 
and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; 
for they shall all know me, from the least of them 
unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will 
forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin 
no moré,—]JEREMIAH 31: 31-34. 


For lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will bring 
again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, 
saith the Lord; and I will cause them to return to the 
land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall 
possess it. 

And ye shall he! as people, and I will be your God. 

The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, ps he 
have done it, and until he have performed the inients 
of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it. 
—JEREMIAH 30: 3, 22, 24. 


Salvation is of the Jews. The hour cometh when 
the true worshipper shall worship the Father in 
spirit. At the well in Samaria, Jesus, Himself, de- 
clared this should be so: 


156 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou 
art a prophet. 

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, 
that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to 
worship. 

Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour 
cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor 
yet at Jerusalem,.worship the Father. 

Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we wor- 
ship: for salvation is of the Jews. 

But the hour cometh and now is, when the true wor- 
shippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in 
truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must wor- 
ship him in spirit and in truth. 

The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, 
which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell 
us all things. 

Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he— 
JOHN 4: 19-26. 


The Lord will surely come and when He comes, 
Jew and Gentile, will He find us ready? 


The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and 
called the earth from the rising of the sun unio the 
going down thereof. 

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath 
shined. 

Our God shall come, and shall not keep siience: a fire 
shall devour before him, and it shall be very tem- 
pestuous round about him. 

He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the 
earth, that he may judge his people. 

Gather my saints together unto me; those that have 
made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 


PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 157 


And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for 
God is judge himself. Selah. 

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I 
will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. 
—PSALM 50: I-7. 


Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law 
of commandments coniained in ordinances; for to 
make in himself of twain one new man, so making 
peace: 

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body 
by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby; 

And came and preached peace to you which were afar 
off, and to them that were nigh. 

For through him we both have access by one Spirit 
unto the Father EPHESIANS 2: 15-18. 


Vil 
CONCLUSION 


N conclusion we again take up the longings of 
Jacob and Israel as set forth by Schechter in 
“Studies of Judaism,” and by Rabbi Wise in 

a recent lecture at Amsterdam, N. Y. 


Schechter: 


“The Synagogue with its long continuous cry after 
God, for more than twenty-three centuries, with its un- 
remittent activity in teaching and developing the word 
of God.” 


Rabbi Stephen S. Wise: 


“Speaking of the Bible, he urged that the tendency 
to regard it as a book should be overcome. It is a 
literature, a library comprised between two covers. The 
oldest antedates by one thousand years the latest. 
Everything written in this literature of the Bible is the 
story of a people who for two thousand years, from 
Abraham to the Maccabees, were always inflexibly 
searching toward God.” 


We are not sure of the way by which Dr. Wise 
has arrived at his conclusion regarding the Bible as 


a literature. It will forever be known by the name 
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CONCLUSION 159 


God gave to Moses for it. “Book”—‘The Book” 
—it will always be. 


And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his 
kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law 
in a book out of that which is before the priests the 
Levites: 

And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all 
the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the 
Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and 
these siatutes, to do them.—DEUTERONOMY 17: 18, 


19. 


This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the 
day that God created man, in the likeness of God 
made he him.—GENESIS 5: I. 


If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy 
God, to keep his commandments and Ms statuies 
which are written in this book of the law, and if 
thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, 
and with all thy soul—-DEUTERONOMY 30: Io. 


Neither in view of God’s commands can we con- 
ceive of any authority from God to add to His 
Book (The Bible) any written work of man. The 
Holy Spirit by Whom the written word of God 
was dictated is One in the Triune Godhead. 


Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and 
unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do 
them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the 
land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, 
neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may 


160 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


keep the commandments of the Lord your God which 
I command you... . 

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom 
and your understanding in the sight of the nations, 
which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely 
this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 
—DEUTERONOMY 4: 1, 2, 6. 


For I testify unto every man that heareth the words 
of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add 
unto these things, God shall add unto him the 
plagues that are writien in this book: 

And if any man shall take away from the words of the 
book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part 
out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and 
from the things which are written in this book.— 
REVELATION 22: 18, 19. 


But it is the longing of Israel—*ther long con- 
tinuous cry after God” and “her always inflexibly 
searching towards God’”—that the writer is con- 
cerned with. Surely if we accept these statements 
literally, do they find agreement with the history 
of God’s Chosen People? 

We prefer therefore, to accept these statements 
as placing the Synagogue of God’s chosen people as 
that of other religious organizations, having a pur- 
pose of worshipping and finding God. 

We learn from Holy Scripture that God drove 
Adam from the garden of Eden,—that He did so 
because man had acquired a knowledge of good 
and evil and might take from the Tree of Life 
and live forever. 


CONCLUSION 161 


And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as 
one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he 
put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, 
and eat, and live for ever: 

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden 
of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was 
taken.— GENESIS 3: 22, 23. 


GOD’S PLAN FOR MAN 


Is it not a reasonable belief that God’s plan for 
man was that when he returned to Him to live for- 
ever, it might be as one with His only begotten Son, 
a new man in Christ Jesus, incapable of falling 
away? 


And have put on the new man, which is renewed in 
knowledge after the image of him that created him. 
—COLOSSIANS 3: I0. 


For we are his workmanship, created in Jesus Christ 
unto good works, which God hath before ordained 
that we should walk in them. EPHESIANS 2: I0. 


Is it unreasonable to believe that a part of His 
plan in choosing from a heathen nation a chosen 
people, was to help Him bring into the way of com- 
ing back, those who so willed, and to open up that 
way for all the world whom He so loved? 


For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be- 
gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 
not perish, but have everlasting life—JoHN 3: 16. 


162 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 

Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, 
that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is 
pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand 
double for all her sins. 

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare 
ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert 
a highway for our God. 

Every valiey shall be exalted, and every mountain and 
hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made 
straight, and the rough places plain. 

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all 
flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord 
hath spoken it. 

O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up in the 
high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tid- 
ings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not 
afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your 
God! 

Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and 
his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with 
kim, and his work before him.—ISAIAH 40: I-5, 9, 10. 


The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me: because the Lord 
hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the 
meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, 
to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening 
of the prison to them that are bound; 

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the 
day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that 
mourn. 

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give 
unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourn- 
ing, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; 
that they might be called trees of righteousness, the 


CONCLUSION 163 


planting of the Lord, that he mighi be glorified.— 
ISAIAH 61: I-3. 


And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of 
Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 

And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the 
spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of 
counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of 
the fear of the Lord.—IsaIaAH II: I, 2. 


And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into 
Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through 
all the region round about... . 

And there was delivered unto him the book of the 
prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, 
he found the place where it was written, 

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath 
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; ke 
hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach 
deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to 
the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. 

To preach the acceptable year of the Lord—LvuKE 


4: 14, 17-19. 


The Chosen People knew God was on Mount 
Sinai. May we ask why were they kept from the 
mountain? Was it not for the reason that the veil 
of the Temple was not yet rent. 


And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, 
saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up 
into the mount, or touch the border of it: whoso- 
ever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death, 
—EXoDUS I9: 12. 


164 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, 
yielded up the ghost. 

And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain 
from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, 
and the rocks rent.—MATTHEW 27: 50, 5I. 


Could God have with Him forever an unre- 
deemed people? . Was not Israel with the world at 
large afar off in Spirit and in Truth? 


And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew 
not; I will lead them in paths that they have not 
known: I will make darkness light before them, and 
crooked things straight. These things will I do 
unto them, and not forsake them.—IsaIAH 42: 16. 


Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we wor- 
ship: for salvation is of the Jews. 

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true wor- 
shippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in 
truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must wor- 
ship him in spirit and in truth—-JOHN 4: 22, 24. 


The Kingdom of Heaven was at hand. 


Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and 
he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, 
come, buy wine and milk without money and with- 
out price. 

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not 
bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? 
hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is 
good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 

Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul 


CONCLUSION 165 


shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant 
with you, even the sure mercies of David. 

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a 
leader and commander to the people —-ISAIAH 55: I-4. 


In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell 
safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be 
called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that 
they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which 
brought up the children of Israel out of the land of 
Egypt: 

Bui, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led 
the seed of the house of Israel out of the north coun- 
try and from all countries whither I had driven them; 
and they shall dwell in their own land.—JEREMIAH 
23: 6-8. 


Is there any voice crying out, ““How can we find 
the waters so refreshing as Isaiah describes them?” 
Yes, I believe there are many such voices. 

Will the answer to them still continue to be: 
“Follow the commands given on Mount Sinai’’? 

But the cry goes out,—‘‘We have tried it and 
still we are crying after God.” Is there no other 
way? Scripture answers with another call like the 
call of Isaiah—“‘Come.” 


Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of 
them shall not fall on the ground without your 
Father. 

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.— 
MATTHEW I0: 29, 30. 


166 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


Is there still a cry for the way? Yes, and many 
cries. 


Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel 
had walked in my ways!—PSALM 81: 13. 


I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto 
me, and heard my cry. ... 

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears 
hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast 
thou not required. 

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book 
it is written of me. 

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is 
within my heart-—PsALM 40: 1, 6, 7, 8. 


The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, 
which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell 
us all things. 

Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he... . 

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him 
that sent me, and to finish his work. 

Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh 
harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, 
and look on the fields; for they are white already 
to harvest —JOHN 4: 25, 26, 34, 35. 


They who hunger and thirst after righteousness 
are filled with the righteousness which is by grace 
through faith such as Abraham had, in place of 
self-righteousness, which Isaiah the prophet de- 
scribes as filthy rags. 


Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after right- 
cousness: for they shall be filled—-MatTHEW 5: 6. 


CONCLUSION 167 


And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now 
toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to 
number them: and he said unto him, So shali thy 
seed be. 

And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him 
for righteousness —GENESIS 15: 5, 6. 


But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteous- 
nesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; 
and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us 
away.—ISAIAH 64: 6. 


What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he 
seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and 
the rest were blinded... . 

I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? 
God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation 
is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to 
jealousy.— ROMANS II: 7, II. 


Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted 
to him for righteousness. 

Know ye therefore that they which are, of faith, the 
same are the children of Abraham—GaLaTIANS 


MPO NRA 


And in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.— 
GENESIS 12: 3. 


And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify 
the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel 
unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be 
blessed. 

So then they which be of faith are blessed with faith- 
ful Abraham.—GALATIANS 3: 8, 9. 


168 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of 
God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 
. . . For it is written, Cursed is every one that con- 
tinueth not in all things which are written in the 
book of the law to do them.—GaLATIANS 3: II, Io. 


Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this 
law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. 
—DEUTERONOMY 27: 26. 


And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth 
them shall live in them. 

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being 
made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every 
one that hangeth on a tree: 

That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gen- 
tiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the 
promise of the Spirit through faith—GaLaTIANS 


SeLagir sg LA. 


For he that is hanged is accursed of God.—DEUTER- 
ONOMY 21: 23. 


I am the true vine, and my Father is the husband- 
man. 

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh 
away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth 
it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken 
unto you. 

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear 
fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more 
can ye, except ye abide in me. 

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in 
me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: 
for without me ye can do nothing —JOHN 15: 1-5. 


CONCLUSION 169 


Salvation, not only belongs to God, but is His 
alone to give. He has given it in Jesus Christ. 


For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not 
of yourselves: it is the gift of God—EPHESIANS 
28:8. 


For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall 
feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains 
of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from 
theiy eyes REVELATION 7: 17. 


If one come in answer to our call to tell us how 
to reach the summit of a high mountain and should 
tell us to follow the instructions given, we may fail 
if we find the way closed by obstacles we do not 
overcome. But if one says, “Come with me in a 
new way, I live on the summit,” and also with 
those of a humble spirit, we may feel sure of 
reaching His home,—such a one is Jesus Christ. 


And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that 
came down from heaven, even the Son of man which 
is in heaven.—JOHN 3: I3. 


Enoch was taken to heaven by God. 


And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God 
took him—GENESIS 5: 24. 


Elijah was taken up by God. 


And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah 
into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with 
Elisha from Gilgal—tII Kincs 2: 1. 


170 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


Jesus Christ ascended into heaven. 


And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as h2 
went up, behold, two men stood by them in white 
apparel.—ACTS I: 10. 


For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth 
eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high 
and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and 
humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and 
to revive the heart of the contrite ones—IsAIAH 


57: 15. 


For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither wil 
he forsake his inheritance.—PSALM 94: 14. 


All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me; and 
him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.— 
JOHN 6: 37. 


Remember ye not the former things, neither consider 
the things of old. 

Behold, I will do a new thing ; now it shall spring forth; 
shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the 
wilderness, and rivers in the desert. 

The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and 
the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and 
rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my 
chosen. 

This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew 
forth my praise. 

But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou 
hast been weary of me, O Israel.—IsAIAH 43: 18-22. 


Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the 
holiest by the blood of Jesus. 


CONCLUSION 171 


By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated 
for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh: 

And having an high priest over the house of God. 

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of 
faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil con- 
science, and our bodies washed with pure water.— 
HEBREWS I0: 19-22. 


And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy 
land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. 

Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised 
up out of his holy habitation ZECHARIAH 2: 12, 13. 


By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged ; 
and this is all the fruit to take away his sin: when 
he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones 
that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall 
not stand up—ISAIAH 27: 9. 


Then understood they how, that he bade them not be- 
ware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of 
the Pharisees and of the Sadducees—MatrHew 
16: 12. 


All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is 
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for 
instruction in righteousness.—\I TimMotTHy 3: 16. 


And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these say- 
ings, the people were astonished at his doctrine.— 
MATTHEW 7: 28. 


And he taught them many things by parables, and said 
unto them in his doctrine—-Mark 4: 2. 


But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines 
the commandments of men.—MATTHEW IS: 9. 


172 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


Even Balaam and the Nicolaitanes had a doc- 
trine, 


But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast 
there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who 
taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the 
children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, 
and to commit fornication. 

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the 
Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.—REVELATION 2: 14, 


15. 


The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; 
the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the 
simple.—PSALM 19: 7. 


They also that erred in spirit shall come to understand- 
ing, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.— 
ISAIAH 29: 24. 


If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doc- 
trine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of 
myself -—JOHN 7: 17. 


For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.— 
PROVERBS 4: 2. 


Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause 
divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which 
ye have learned; and avoid them.—RoMANS 16: 17. 


Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their 
own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of 
God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.—l T1mMoTHY 
ohh & 


CONCLUSION 173 


Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in_ the 
doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in 
the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and 
the Son—tI JouHn 9. 


It has been written that “an undevout astronomer 
is mad’”—presumably so when the best of human 
nature in the make-up of man fails to appreciate 
the grandeur of the Heavens that “are telling 
the glory of God.” So it seems like it when the 
majesty of the words of God by the Jewish Prophet 
Isaiah fail to be appreciated by the reader or the 
hearer. Where in all the realm of words has the 
love of Fatherhood for the erring, gone beyond this 
lament of Jesus Christ over Jerusalem. 


O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, ... how often would I have 
gathered thy children together, even as a hen gath- 
ereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 
—MATTHEW 23: 37. 


The Spirit of Him that was made flesh and dwelt 
among us and is interceding with “groanings that 
cannot be uttered,’ will prevail. 

Not alone are the heavens declaring the glory of 
God: 


The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firma- 
nent sheweth his handywork—PsALM Ig: I. 


And the Prophets are declaring the glory of God 
that now is, and which is to come. Does not the 


174. THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


prophet in the eighty-fifth Psalm, tell us both of the 
present and the future of Jacob? 


Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou 
hast brought back the captivity of Jacob... . 

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness 
shall look down from heaven. 

Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our 
land shall yield her increase. 

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in 
the way of his steps—-PSALM 85: 1, II-13. 


If righteousness looks down from heaven, may 
we not look up to heaven for righteousness with 
success, and not to ourselves with failure? 


Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies 
pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let 
them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness 
spring up together; I the Lord have created it... . 

Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his 
Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, 
and concerning the work of my hands command ye 
me. 

I have made the earth, and created man upon it: TI, 
even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and 
all their hosts have I commanded.—IsatauH 45: 8, 
LP yo 


Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon 
him while he is near. 

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous 
man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, 
and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, 
for he will abundantly pardon.—IsataH 55: 6, 7. 


CONCLUSION 175 


In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell 
safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be 

_ called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.—JEREMIAH 
23... 0; 


Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm 
of the Lord revealed? ... 

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sor- 
rows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of 
God, and afflicted. | 

Bui he was wounded for our transgressions, he was 
bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our 
peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are 
healed.—IsAIAH 53:1, 4, 5. 


Was it only a mere accident that placed the 
twenty-third Psalm to follow the twenty-second 
Psalm,—or was it that the agony of the Redeemer 
of Jacob and of the world God so loved,—should be 
declared in Jesus’ own words by the Spirit when 
telling of the price paid on the Cross in the twenty- 
second Psalm? 


My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why 
art thou so far from helping me, and from the words 
of my roaring? ..., 

But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises 
of Israel—PSALM 22: I, 3. 


And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, 
saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, 
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?— 
MATTHEW 27: 46. 


176 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


In the other, the twenty-third Psalm, the Re- 
deemed should rejoice in the redemption which 
followed the price paid, as they accept release from 
their bonds: 


The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. 
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth 
me beside the still waters—PSALM 23: I, 2. 


Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and 
he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, 
come, buy wine and milk without money and with- 
out price. 

Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your 
soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting 
covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 
—ISAIAH 55: I, 3. 


Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil 
the statutes and judgments which the Lord charged 
Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good 
courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.—I CHRONICLES 
pA eds a 


Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the 
prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, 
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the 

law, till all be fulfilled —MATTHEW 5: 17, 18. 


GOD’Ss PLAN AND PROMISE 


And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now 
toward heaven, and tell the siars, if thou be able to 
number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy 
seed be. 


CONCLUSION 177 


And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him 
for righteousness —GENESIS I5: 5, 6. 


As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou 
shalt be a father of many nations——GENESIS 17: 4. 


For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, 
was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, 
but through the righteousness of faith—ROMANS 


LAE 


You only have I known of all the families of the earth: 
therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. 
Can two walk together, except they be agreed.—Amos 

pes 


Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because 
I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O 
Israel—AMOS 4: I2. 


But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus 
is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye 
might have life through his name.—JOHN 20: 31. 


For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto — 
the Father —EPHESIANS 2: 18. 


If man, knowing good and evil could, through 
the law, become capable in himself of choosing the 
good and shunning the evil, having no need of a 
Redeemer, could attain to the perfection God re- 
quires,—why, may we ask, was he sent forth from 
the Garden of Eden when he was capable of taking 
of the tree of life and living forever? 

It was because he might have Christ for a Re- 


178 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


deemer and enter into that eternal life which is 
Jesus Christ alone and was not in the tree that 
would make him live forever, but would not make 
him one with Christ, as Christ is one with the 
Father, and thus not only live forever but through 
the Son of God be brought into the family of God, 
whom he could have as a Father, becoming capable 
of being through faith (a gift of God) raised from 
the dead by Jesus Christ, to dwell with Him for- 
ever. 


And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become 
as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he 
put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, 
and eat, and live for ever: 

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden 
of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 
—GENESIS 3: 22, 23. 


And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are 
yet in your sins —I CORINTHIANS I5: 17. 


So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful 
Abraham. 

For as many as are of the works of the law are under 
the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that 
continueth not in all things which are written in the 
book of the law to do them —GALaTIANS 3: 9, I0. 


Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this 
law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. 
—DEUTERONOMY 27: 26. 


God also bearing them witness, both with signs and won- 
ders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy 


CONCLUSION 179 
Ghost, according to his own will?-—-HEBREWS 2: 4. 


For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: 
and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and 
his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of 
Peace.—ISAIAH 9: 6. 


The tree of life in the garden of Eden was made 
to grow out of the ground. 


And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow 
every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for 
food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, 
and the tree of knowledge of good and evil_—GENESIS 


2570. 


But there is a Tree of Life which is in the midst 
of the Paradise of God. 


He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith 
unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I 
give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of 
the paradise of God.—REVELATION 2: 7. 


I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, 
the first and the last. 

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they 
may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in 
through the gates into the city, —REVELATION 22: 13, 


I4. 


Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the 
life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.— 
JOHN 14: 6. 


180 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 


JESUS MADE A WILL 


Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, made 
a will. It is recorded in the seventeenth chapter of 
the Gospel according to John: 


Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me, 
be with me where I am; that they may behold my 
glory, which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me 
before the foundation of the world—JOHN 17: 24. 


Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which 
shall believe on me through their word; 

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, 
and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that 
the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 

And the glory which thou gavest mel have given them; 
that they may be one, even as we are oneé.—JOHN 
170 20020. 0237 


All Israel is witness to this will. It was finished 
on the Cross of Calvary. 


Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant 
whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe 
me and understand that I am he, before me there was 
no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 

I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no 
Saviour.—ISAIAH 43: 10, II, 


This ought to persuade those who believe Scrip- 
ture and yet deny that Jesus Christ and God are 
One, since it proclaims that there was no God be- 
fore Him and shall be none after Him, and no other 
Saviour than Him. 


CONCLUSION 181 


Israel is given by promise; they may inherit by 
will—if they believe. Shall they continue to dis- 
believe? 


Now cheerful to the house of prayer, 
Your early footsteps bend; 

The Saviour will Himself be there, 
Your Advocate and Friend, 

Once by the law your hopes were slain, 
But now in Christ they live again. 


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